Hypena proboscidalis
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 proboscidalis

description: Hypena proboscidalis (Linnaeus, 1758)
Materials
Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Choi, Sei-Woong; individualCount: 1; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; disposition: Mokpo National University; occurrenceID: C3BEF8E3-EC1F-5BA4-8A27-99A9D6C0A0F3; Taxon: scientificName: Hypena proboscidalis; Location: country: South Korea; stateProvince: GW; county: Yanggu; locality: Dumu-ri, Guktojeongjungang-myeon; Identification: identifiedBy: Sung-Soo Kim; dateIdentified: 2024; Event: samplingProtocol: Ultraviolet bucket trap; samplingEffort: 6 trapping hours; eventDate: 7/21/2023; 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: 4934AA99-97CC-57CF-9479-B8E0430A800F; Taxon: scientificName: Hypena proboscidalis; Location: country: South Korea; stateProvince: GW; county: Pyeongchang; locality: Mt. Jungwang, Daehwa-myeon; verbatimElevation: 1200; Identification: identifiedBy: Sung-Soo Kim; dateIdentified: 2024; Event: samplingProtocol: Ultraviolet bucket trap; samplingEffort: 6 trapping hours; eventDate: 6/11/2014; 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: 99C55547-7392-59A9-A37F-DAB6F529FFB4; Taxon: scientificName: Hypena proboscidalis; Location: country: South Korea; stateProvince: GW; county: Pyeongchang; locality: Mt. Jungwang, Daehwa-myeon; verbatimElevation: 1200; Identification: identifiedBy: Sung-Soo Kim; dateIdentified: 2024; Event: samplingProtocol: Ultraviolet bucket trap; samplingEffort: 6 trapping hours; eventDate: 6/10/2014; Record Level: modified: 3 / 30 / 2025; language: en; collectionCode: Insects; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Choi, Sei-Woong; individualCount: 1; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; disposition: Mokpo National University; occurrenceID: E5ABE1A2-A9D1-5BD5-AB18-7F88C8AA485D; Taxon: scientificName: Hypena proboscidalis; Location: country: South Korea; stateProvince: CB; county: Goesan; locality: Hwayang-ri, Cheongcheon-myeon; Identification: identifiedBy: Sung-Soo Kim; dateIdentified: 2024; Event: samplingProtocol: Ultraviolet bucket trap; samplingEffort: 6 trapping hours; eventDate: 5/24/2014; Record Level: modified: 3 / 30 / 2025; language: en; collectionCode: Insects; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Choi, Sei-Woong; individualCount: 1; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; disposition: Mokpo National University; occurrenceID: 822B4B6A-113F-550D-8B10-A3BBB72E857C; Taxon: scientificName: Hypena proboscidalis; Location: country: South Korea; stateProvince: JN; county: Gurye; locality: Mt., Jiri; verbatimElevation: 1350; verbatimCoordinates: 35°17'N 127°33’E; Identification: identifiedBy: Sei-Woong Choi; dateIdentified: 2024; Event: samplingProtocol: Ultraviolet bucket trap; samplingEffort: 6 trapping hours; eventDate: 6/5/2005; 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: 54C0EE5B-8923-571D-A8FB-13EF53CC98BE; Taxon: scientificName: Hypena proboscidalis; Location: country: South Korea; stateProvince: JN; county: Sinan; locality: Sugok-ri, Amtae-myeon; verbatimElevation: 120; verbatimCoordinates: 34°50'19"N 126°4'55"E; Identification: identifiedBy: Sei-Woong Choi; dateIdentified: 2024; Event: samplingProtocol: Ultraviolet bucket trap; samplingEffort: 6 trapping hours; eventDate: 4/20/2023; 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: 4FDC2838-3043-5D11-B94E-0DE9DD37E8C7; Taxon: scientificName: Hypena proboscidalis; Location: country: South Korea; stateProvince: JJ; county: Jeju; locality: Mt. Halla, Aewol-eup; verbatimElevation: 1694; verbatimCoordinates: 33°21'44"N 126°31'10"E; Identification: identifiedBy: Sei-Woong Choi; dateIdentified: 2024; Event: samplingProtocol: Ultraviolet bucket trap; samplingEffort: 6 trapping hours; eventDate: 7/4/2019; Record Level: modified: 3 / 30 / 2025; language: en; collectionCode: Insects; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
Distribution
Korea, Japan, Russia, Taiwan, China (South), Nepal, Bangladesh, India, Europe.
Notes
DNA barcoding. Hypena proboscidalis (GenBank accession No. PV 274479) showed the highest mean genetic distance of 10.25 % from H. pulverulenta, while it exhibited the lowest mean genetic distance of 0.15 % from H. tamsi (Figs 2 a, 7 c, d, 10).
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