Hadena sancta

Hadena sancta
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Noctuidae
Genus: Hadena
Species:
H. sancta
Binomial name
Hadena sancta
(Staudinger, 1859)
Synonyms
  • Dianthoecia sancta Staudinger, 1859
  • Hadena protai Berio, 1978
  • Polia trisagittata Rothschild, 1914
  • Hadena trisagittata tripolensis Berio, 1978
  • Hadena trisagittata

Hadena sancta is a species of moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in Spain, Corsica, Sardinia, Malta, North Africa, Israel, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Cyprus, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Yemen.

Description

Warren states darker and greyer [ than Hadena perplexa as E. nisus Germ. (21 a). Like irregularis, buffgrey brown without the paleochreous tinge; submarginal line dentate and preceded by long dentate black marks; claviform stigma definite but small and brown; hindwing fuscous. The type form is from Sicily only] with the stigmata filled in with brown, occurs in Spain.[1]

Subspecies

  • Hadena sancta sancta (Libya, Algeria)
  • Hadena sancta protai (Italy)
  • Hadena sancta turca (Turkey)
  • Hadena sancta cypriaca (Cyprus)
  • Hadena sancta atrifusa

Biology

Adults are on wing from March to May in one generation in Israel.

The larvae feed on the seeds of Silene species.

References

  1. ^ Warren, W. in Seitz, A. Ed., 1914 Die Großschmetterlinge der Erde, Verlag Alfred Kernen, Stuttgart Band 3: Abt. 1, Die Großschmetterlinge des palaearktischen Faunengebietes, Die palaearktischen eulenartigen Nachtfalter, 1914 Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.


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