Hypena mandarina Leech 1900
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 mandarina

description: Hypena mandarina Leech, 1900
Materials
Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Choi, Sei-Woong; individualCount: 1; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; disposition: Mokpo National University; occurrenceID: 11093478-E51F-5491-AEEB-794BF5134E59; Taxon: scientificName: Hypena mandarina; Location: country: South Korea; stateProvince: GN; county: Hamyang; locality: Mt. Jiri, Macheon-myeon; verbatimElevation: 760; verbatimCoordinates: 35°21'18"N 127°38'08“E; Identification: identifiedBy: Sei-Woong Choi; dateIdentified: 2024; Event: samplingProtocol: Ultraviolet bucket trap; samplingEffort: 6 trapping hours; eventDate: 8/13/2009; 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: E41D8B6B-3BF6-56CA-BC9E-287CEF9C3F6E; Taxon: scientificName: Hypena mandarina; Location: country: South Korea; stateProvince: GN; county: Hamyang; locality: Mt. Jiri, Macheon-myeon; verbatimElevation: 760; verbatimCoordinates: 35°21'18"N 127°38'08“E; Identification: identifiedBy: Sei-Woong Choi; dateIdentified: 2024; Event: samplingProtocol: Ultraviolet bucket trap; samplingEffort: 6 trapping hours; eventDate: 8/13/2009; 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: ED53C42B-25EF-5B05-BB0D-A909EAD9AFD9; Taxon: scientificName: Hypena mandarina; Location: country: South Korea; stateProvince: GN; county: Hadong; locality: Hwagae-myeon; verbatimElevation: 702; verbatimCoordinates: 35°18'21"N 127°38'11“E; Identification: identifiedBy: Sei-Woong Choi; dateIdentified: 2024; Event: samplingProtocol: Ultraviolet bucket trap; samplingEffort: 6 trapping hours; eventDate: 6/21/2009; 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: 5F7D0FC7-2FA0-5A2A-8670-E44C06E838DB; Taxon: scientificName: Hypena mandarina; Location: country: South Korea; stateProvince: GN; county: Hamyang; locality: Mt. Jiri, Macheon-myeon; verbatimElevation: 760; verbatimCoordinates: 35°21'18"N 127°38'08“E; Identification: identifiedBy: Sei-Woong Choi; dateIdentified: 2024; Event: samplingProtocol: Ultraviolet bucket trap; samplingEffort: 6 trapping hours; eventDate: 6/26/2008; 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: F965802B-BDC8-5B79-9617-6D424537CC95; Taxon: scientificName: Hypena mandarina; Location: country: South Korea; stateProvince: GN; county: Hadong; locality: Hwagae-myeon; verbatimElevation: 702; verbatimCoordinates: 35°18'21"N 127°38'11“E; Identification: identifiedBy: Sei-Woong Choi; dateIdentified: 2024; Event: samplingProtocol: Ultraviolet bucket trap; samplingEffort: 6 trapping hours; eventDate: 6/8/2019; Record Level: modified: 3 / 30 / 2025; language: en; collectionCode: Insects; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Choi, Sei-Woong; individualCount: 1; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; disposition: Mokpo National University; occurrenceID: 1729F710-688A-525F-8EAA-863DED8B10C4; Taxon: scientificName: Hypena mandarina; Location: country: South Korea; stateProvince: JN; county: Gurye; locality: Mt. Jiri, Sandong-myeon; verbatimElevation: 923; verbatimCoordinates: 35°19'22"N 127°31'23“E; Identification: identifiedBy: Sei-Woong Choi; dateIdentified: 2024; Event: samplingProtocol: Ultraviolet bucket trap; samplingEffort: 6 trapping hours; eventDate: 8/15/2017; 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: 3A443B10-C43F-5E5E-9B71-C515167A0825; Taxon: scientificName: Hypena mandarina; Location: country: South Korea; stateProvince: JN; county: Jangseong; locality: Baegyang-ro, Bukha-myeon; verbatimElevation: 663; verbatimCoordinates: 35°27'12"N 126°52'51“E; Identification: identifiedBy: Sei-Woong Choi; dateIdentified: 2024; Event: samplingProtocol: Ultraviolet bucket trap; samplingEffort: 6 trapping hours; eventDate: 6/16/2021; 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: 43DB4434-2AA0-5F1D-86FB-3ED901336B92; Taxon: scientificName: Hypena mandarina; Location: country: South Korea; stateProvince: JJ; county: Seogwipo; locality: Mt. Halla, Hawon-dong; verbatimElevation: 997; verbatimCoordinates: 33°20'05"N 126°28'12“E; Identification: identifiedBy: Sei-Woong Choi; dateIdentified: 2024; Event: samplingProtocol: Ultraviolet bucket trap; samplingEffort: 6 trapping hours; eventDate: 8/26/2007; Record Level: modified: 3 / 30 / 2025; language: en; collectionCode: Insects; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
Distribution
Korea, China.
Notes
This is the first record for the Korean fauna. The DNA barcode of Hypena mandarina was first registered in this study (GenBank accession No. PV 274489, PV 274490). The p-distance with H. proboscidalis and H. tamsi was 9.79 %, while the lowest genetic distance (5.71 %) was recorded for H. stygiana (Figs 6 a, 8 e, f).
Diagnosis
Wingspan 29 mm. Antenna filiform, yellowish-brown; vertex and frons with erected yellowish-brown scales; labial palpi covered with obliquely erected dark brown scales on dorsal and ventral surfaces, second segment two times longer than the third segment. Thorax yellowish-brown; tegula consisting of long scales and hair-like scales. Forewing ground colour yellowish-brown; a large rhomboidal dark brown medial patch, inner line blackish, bordered with whitish, outer line projected at 1 / 3 from costa; subterminal line whitish, undulating; apical streak dark brown, bank-shaped. Hindwing yellowish-brown; a large dark brown discal dot. Abdomen greyish-brown with dark brown erected scales on the middle of 1 st to 4 th terga. Male genitalia. Uncus relatively short, hooked, apex pointed. Tegumen hood-shaped; tuba analis basally strongly sclerotised; juxta narrow with both sides extended and heads facing up; saccus long, semi-rounded. Valva simple, weakly sclerotised, medially expanded; costal margin medially swollen, ventral margin thin, sclerotised, largely undulating; sacculus with a small, sharply-pointed dorsal arm, ventral margin medially weakly invaginated; basally a relatively thin division of clavus. Aedeagus long, rod-shaped, anteriorly with dense spicules; vesica large, tubular, cornuti two patches of spines and a large sclerotised spine.
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