Hypena occata Moore 1882
Creators: name: Jin, Dahee
name: Kim, Sung-Soo
name: Shin, Bora
name: Choi, Sei-Woong
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Erebidae
Hypena
Hypena occata

description: Hypena occata Moore, 1882
Materials
Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Choi, Sei-Woong; individualCount: 1; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; disposition: Mokpo National University; occurrenceID: 266524F2-CE7F-5ED5-B70C-C9CA676AA39C; Taxon: scientificName: Hypena occata; Location: country: South Korea; stateProvince: GN; county: Tongyeong; locality: Sanyang-eup; Identification: identifiedBy: Sung-Soo Kim; dateIdentified: 2024; Event: samplingProtocol: Ultraviolet bucket trap; samplingEffort: 6 trapping hours; eventDate: 10/8/2014; 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: B15117E1-7409-58E1-8476-EF2ADB330709; Taxon: scientificName: Hypena occata; Location: country: South Korea; stateProvince: GN; county: Tongyeong; Identification: identifiedBy: Sung-Soo Kim; dateIdentified: 2024; Event: samplingProtocol: Ultraviolet bucket trap; samplingEffort: 6 trapping hours; eventDate: 8/24/2019; 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: A7943CBA-74B8-56BF-9FB3-DF15CCA00E35; Taxon: scientificName: Hypena occata; Location: country: South Korea; stateProvince: GN; county: Geoje; locality: Hakdong-ri, Dongbu-myeon; Identification: identifiedBy: Sung-Soo Kim; dateIdentified: 2024; Event: samplingProtocol: Ultraviolet bucket trap; samplingEffort: 6 trapping hours; eventDate: 4/9/2014; 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: BD337962-93CC-55A5-9643-14F5D28EA9D7; Taxon: scientificName: Hypena occata; Location: country: South Korea; stateProvince: JJ; county: Jeju; locality: Gujwa-eup; Identification: identifiedBy: Sung-Soo Kim; dateIdentified: 2024; Event: samplingProtocol: Ultraviolet bucket trap; samplingEffort: 6 trapping hours; eventDate: 10/3/2000; 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: BD2B6CA7-DAB3-5B04-9C4D-013E56FD819D; Taxon: scientificName: Hypena occata; Location: country: South Korea; stateProvince: JJ; county: Jeju; locality: Gujwa-eup; Identification: identifiedBy: Sung-Soo Kim; dateIdentified: 2024; Event: samplingProtocol: Ultraviolet bucket trap; samplingEffort: 6 trapping hours; eventDate: 10/3/2000; 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: 76D67263-0CB4-57EA-85E1-340EC3207B23; Taxon: scientificName: Hypena occata; Location: country: South Korea; stateProvince: JJ; county: Jeju; locality: Jeoji-ri, Hangyeong-myeon; Identification: identifiedBy: Sung-Soo Kim; dateIdentified: 2024; Event: samplingProtocol: Ultraviolet bucket trap; samplingEffort: 6 trapping hours; eventDate: 3/20/2020; 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: E2C0F95C-EFC3-5F7C-A75A-19214A01E78C; Taxon: scientificName: Hypena occata; Location: country: South Korea; stateProvince: JJ; county: Seogwipo; locality: Sagye-ri, Andeok-myeon; Identification: identifiedBy: Sung-Soo Kim; dateIdentified: 2024; Event: samplingProtocol: Ultraviolet bucket trap; samplingEffort: 6 trapping hours; eventDate: 6/23/2017; Record Level: modified: 3 / 30 / 2025; language: en; collectionCode: Insects; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Choi, Sei-Woong; individualCount: 1; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; disposition: Mokpo National University; occurrenceID: 14DDB563-92CF-52E6-BD14-4504980B3033; Taxon: scientificName: Hypena occata; Location: country: South Korea; stateProvince: JJ; county: Seogwipo; locality: Jungmun-dong; Identification: identifiedBy: Sung-Soo Kim; dateIdentified: 2024; Event: samplingProtocol: Ultraviolet bucket trap; samplingEffort: 6 trapping hours; eventDate: 3/28/2018; Record Level: modified: 3 / 30 / 2025; language: en; collectionCode: Insects; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
Distribution
Korea, Japan, Taiwan.
Notes
Leech (1889) recorded this species from Wonsan (Gensan), North Korea. Based on the specimens examined in this study, the first record of the species is ambiguous (Figs 2 f, 3 a).
description: Published as part of 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, pp. e 155581 in Biodiversity Data Journal 13 on page e155581, DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.13.e155581