Hypena squalida Butler, 1879

Jin, Dahee, Kim, Sung-Soo, Shin, Bora & Choi, Sei-Woong, 2025, An updated list of the genus Hypena Schrank (Lepidoptera, Erebidae) from Korea with five additional records to the fauna, Biodiversity Data Journal 13, pp. e 155581-e 155581 : e155581-

Hypena squalida Butler, 1879

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Choi, Sei-Woong; individualCount: 1; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; disposition: Mokpo National University; occurrenceID: 2B2E0B7F-A418-5789-B8EF-996246FD8D5D; Taxon: scientificName: Hypena squalida ; Location: country: South Korea; stateProvince: GW; county: Pyeongchang; locality: Singi-ri, Jinbu-myeon ; Identification: identifiedBy: Sung-Soo Kim; dateIdentified: 2024; Event: samplingProtocol: Ultraviolet bucket trap; samplingEffort: 6 trapping hours; eventDate: 7/5/2021; Record Level: modified: 3 / 30 / 2025; language: en; collectionCode: Insects; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Choi, Sei-Woong; individualCount: 1; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; disposition: Mokpo National University; occurrenceID: C1B38E33-35FD-599F-8207-834B1190020F; Taxon: scientificName: Hypena squalida ; Location: country: South Korea; stateProvince: GW; county: Taebaek; locality: near RailwayStation Chugeon ; Identification: identifiedBy: Sung-Soo Kim; dateIdentified: 2024; Event: samplingProtocol: Ultraviolet bucket trap; samplingEffort: 6 trapping hours; eventDate: 7/7/2017; Record Level: modified: 3 / 30 / 2025; language: en; collectionCode: Insects; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Choi, Sei-Woong; individualCount: 1; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; disposition: Mokpo National University; occurrenceID: 2D2201F7-853E-5D64-8AB4-7B230E4D2904; Taxon: scientificName: Hypena squalida ; Location: country: South Korea; stateProvince: GB; county: Ulleung; locality: Na-ri, Buk-myeon ; Identification: identifiedBy: Sung-Soo Kim; dateIdentified: 2024; Event: samplingProtocol: Ultraviolet bucket trap; samplingEffort: 6 trapping hours; eventDate: 7/23/1998; Record Level: modified: 3 / 30 / 2025; language: en; collectionCode: Insects; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Choi, Sei-Woong; individualCount: 4; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; disposition: Mokpo National University; occurrenceID: F2A1EB4A-7BA6-5912-9419-A72B944A9B93; Taxon: scientificName: Hypena squalida ; Location: country: South Korea; stateProvince: GB; county: Ulleung; locality: Na-ri, Buk-myeon ; Identification: identifiedBy: Sung-Soo Kim; dateIdentified: 2024; Event: samplingProtocol: Ultraviolet bucket trap; samplingEffort: 6 trapping hours; eventDate: 7/23/1998; Record Level: modified: 3 / 30 / 2025; language: en; collectionCode: Insects; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen

Distribution

Korea, Japan, Russian Far East.

Notes

Hypena squalida (GenBank accession No. PV 274473) showed the highest mean genetic distance of 9.06 % from H. obacerralis , while it exhibited the lowest mean genetic distance of 4.25 % from H. stygiana (Fig. 5 a ).

Figures

Figure 5 a. Hypena squalida, female;