Hypena perspicua 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 perspicua

description: Hypena perspicua Leech, 1900
Materials
Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Choi, Sei-Woong; individualCount: 1; sex: male; lifeStage: adult; disposition: Mokpo National University; occurrenceID: 93B669B0-4F26-538B-8963-B111FD230DC6; Taxon: scientificName: Hypena perspicua; Location: country: South Korea; stateProvince: JJ; county: Seogwipo; locality: Mt. Halla; verbatimCoordinates: 33°19'N 126°36'E; Identification: identifiedBy: Sei-Woong Choi; dateIdentified: 2024; Event: samplingProtocol: Ultraviolet bucket trap; samplingEffort: 6 trapping hours; eventDate: 8/24/2004; 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: CDCF5057-7A39-52EF-9D00-C7C7F02050AB; Taxon: scientificName: Hypena perspicua; Location: country: South Korea; stateProvince: JJ; county: Seogwipo; locality: Seoquipo Natural Recreation Forest; verbatimCoordinates: 33°18'39"N 126°27'32“E; Identification: identifiedBy: Sung-Soo Kim; dateIdentified: 2024; Event: samplingProtocol: Ultraviolet bucket trap; samplingEffort: 6 trapping hours; eventDate: 9/25/2019; Record Level: modified: 3 / 30 / 2025; language: en; collectionCode: Insects; basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen
Distribution
Korea, Japan, China, Taiwan, Thailand.
Notes
This is the first record for the Korean fauna. The DNA barcode of Hypena perspicua was first registered in this study (GenBank accession No. PV 274488). The p-distance with H. proboscidalis and H. tamsi was 9.99 %, while the lowest genetic distance (5.07 %) was recorded for H. nigrobasalis (Figs 5 e, 8 c, d).
Diagnosis
Wingspan 30 mm. Antenna filiform, brown; vertex yellowish-brown scales; frons with dark brown scales; labial palpi covered with obliquely erected dark brown scales on dorsal and ventral surfaces, second segment three times longer than the third segment, distal end of third segment yellowish. Thorax dark brown; tegula consisting of long scales and hair-like scales. Forewing ground colour pale brown; a large rhomboidal dark brown medial patch, inner line from the base to outer line bordered dorsally with yellowish-white, outer line strongly curved at 1 / 3 from costa where dark brown band from apex meets; subapical and subtornus dots blackish. Hindwing brown with a large blackish discal dot. Abdomen brown with dark brown erected scales at middle of 1 st to 4 th terga. Male genitalia. Uncus long, weakly tapering, apex strongly hooked, pointed. Tegumen hood-shaped; tuba analis long; juxta broad, thick diamond-shape on its side; saccus long, semi-rounded. Valva simple, weakly sclerotised, medially expanded; costal margin medially swollen, ventrally swollen; sacculus ventral margin medially weakly invaginated; basally a relatively long division of clavus, about a half of length of valva with a nipple-shaped process. Aedeagus long, rod-shaped, anteriorly simple; vesica tubular, cornuti a row of spines and a small sclerotised plate.
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