Hypena narratalis Walker 1859
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 narratalis

description: Hypena narratalis Walker, 1859
Materials
Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Choi, Sei-Woong; individualCount: 1; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; disposition: Mokpo National University; occurrenceID: A3109A78-BC30-5F8E-B9B5-63E15ED8DCD1; Taxon: scientificName: Hypena narratalis; Location: country: South Korea; stateProvince: GW; county: Pyungchang; locality: Mt. Jungangsan, Daewha-myeon; Identification: identifiedBy: Sung-Soo Kim; dateIdentified: 2024; Event: samplingProtocol: Ultraviolet bucket trap; samplingEffort: 6 trapping hours; eventDate: 6/13/2012; 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: ED5F831C-E275-58AA-9C75-08EEFDD2BB3A; Taxon: scientificName: Hypena narratalis; Location: country: South Korea; stateProvince: GW; county: Pyungchang; locality: Mt. Jungangsan, Daewha-myeon; verbatimElevation: 1200; Identification: identifiedBy: Sung-Soo Kim; dateIdentified: 2024; Event: samplingProtocol: Ultraviolet bucket trap; samplingEffort: 6 trapping hours; eventDate: 5/14/2015; 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: CC27B8DD-C138-5CD2-B1FC-2E3DEE539D1F; Taxon: scientificName: Hypena narratalis; Location: country: South Korea; stateProvince: GW; county: Inje; locality: Bangtong-ri, Girin-myon; Identification: identifiedBy: Sung-Soo Kim; dateIdentified: 2024; Event: samplingProtocol: Ultraviolet bucket trap; samplingEffort: 6 trapping hours; eventDate: 5/8/2011; 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: D42BF003-FFFC-5458-8FD6-B16996D8FF46; Taxon: scientificName: Hypena narratalis; Location: country: South Korea; stateProvince: CB; county: Danyang; locality: Mt. Soback; verbatimElevation: 530; verbatimCoordinates: 36°59'N 128°28'E; Identification: identifiedBy: Sei-Woong Choi; dateIdentified: 2024; Event: samplingProtocol: Ultraviolet bucket trap; samplingEffort: 6 trapping hours; eventDate: 7/21/2005; Record Level: modified: 3 / 30 / 2025; language: en; collectionCode: Insects; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
Distribution
Korea, Japan, Taiwan, India (North).
Notes
Hypena narratalis (GenBank accession No. PV 274487) showed the highest mean genetic distance of 8.71 % from H. trigonalis, while it exhibited the lowest mean genetic distance of 4.29 % from H. obesalis (Figs 3 f, 4 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