Hypena tristalis Lederer 1853
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 tristalis

description: Hypena tristalis Lederer, 1853
Materials
Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Choi, Sei-Woong; individualCount: 1; sex: female; lifeStage: adult; disposition: Mokpo National University; occurrenceID: 27B1E79B-B457-5EC3-81C3-72161220504C; Taxon: scientificName: Hypena tristalis; 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: 3BDECC4D-6C05-502B-B927-43BDF0E9BA5D; Taxon: scientificName: Hypena tristalis; Location: country: South Korea; stateProvince: GW; county: Inje; locality: Mt. Seorak, Buk-myeon; verbatimElevation: 1700; Identification: identifiedBy: Sung-Soo Kim; dateIdentified: 2024; Event: samplingProtocol: Ultraviolet bucket trap; samplingEffort: 6 trapping hours; eventDate: 8/1/2013; 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: B9FF6AB4-A800-5FA3-9898-40E53E2DE10A; Taxon: scientificName: Hypena tristalis; Location: country: South Korea; stateProvince: GW; county: Inje; locality: Bangdong-ri, Girin-myeon; Identification: identifiedBy: Sung-Soo Kim; dateIdentified: 2024; Event: samplingProtocol: Ultraviolet bucket trap; samplingEffort: 6 trapping hours; eventDate: 5/12/2013; Record Level: modified: 3 / 30 / 2025; language: en; collectionCode: Insects; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Choi, Sei-Woong; individualCount: 2; sex: females; lifeStage: adult; disposition: Mokpo National University; occurrenceID: 38764FCF-B3C1-5768-AE41-09D25E9CE81B; Taxon: scientificName: Hypena tristalis; 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: 9/17/2013; 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: 2E7595B8-A428-58D2-9966-2EB9957F3598; Taxon: scientificName: Hypena tristalis; Location: country: South Korea; stateProvince: JN; county: Gurye; locality: Mt. Jiri, Toji-myeon; verbatimElevation: 1318; verbatimCoordinates: 35°18'12"N 127°33'34“E; Identification: identifiedBy: Sei-Woong Choi; dateIdentified: 2024; Event: samplingProtocol: Ultraviolet bucket trap; samplingEffort: 6 trapping hours; eventDate: 9/20/2009; 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: 71D46044-009B-58F5-8EF9-7B992A2057BE; Taxon: scientificName: Hypena tristalis; Location: country: South Korea; stateProvince: JN; county: Gurye; locality: Mt. Jiri, Sandong-myeon; verbatimElevation: 1504; verbatimCoordinates: 35°17'37.8"N 127°31'58.5“E; Identification: identifiedBy: Sei-Woong Choi; dateIdentified: 2024; Event: samplingProtocol: Ultraviolet bucket trap; samplingEffort: 6 trapping hours; eventDate: 5/16/2020; 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: BB437A0C-FEFB-51DD-8FA8-436413F8D99F; Taxon: scientificName: Hypena tristalis; Location: country: South Korea; stateProvince: JN; county: Gurye; locality: Mt. Jiri, Sandong-myeon; verbatimElevation: 1074; verbatimCoordinates: 35°18'21"N 127°30'45“E; Identification: identifiedBy: Sei-Woong Choi; dateIdentified: 2024; Event: samplingProtocol: Ultraviolet bucket trap; samplingEffort: 6 trapping hours; eventDate: 9/14/2012; Record Level: modified: 3 / 30 / 2025; language: en; collectionCode: Insects; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
Distribution
Korea, Japan, China, Russian Far East.
Notes
Hypena tristalis (GenBank accession No. JN 273650, JN 273651) showed the highest mean genetic distance of 8.71 % from H. trigonalis, while it exhibited the lowest mean genetic distance of 4.13 % from H. obesalis (Fig. 3 e).
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