Hadena silenes

Hadena silenes
20d
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Noctuidae
Genus: Hadena
Species:
H. silenes
Binomial name
Hadena silenes
(Hübner, 1822)
Synonyms
  • Noctua silenes Hübner, [1822]
  • Dianthoecia sejuncta Herrich-Schäffer, [1850]
  • Hadena variegata

Hadena silenes is a species of moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in Europe, Turkey, Israel, Iran and Turkmenistan.

Description

E. silenes Hbn. ( sejuncta H.-Sch.) (20 d). Forewing ochreous white with redbrown suffusion; claviform stigma black; orbicular and reniform large, their centres brown ringed with white; submarginal line white with black wedge-shaped marks in front of it; hindwing brown, deeper towards termen. — Larva pale redbrown; dorsal and subdorsal lines fine, whitish grey; lateral stripe broad and whitish; spiracles white with black rings ; on seeds of various kinds of Silene. A South European species, found in S. France, [Italy], Spain, Sicily, Hungary and Macedonia; also in Armenia, Palestine, and Mesopotamia.[1]

Subspecies

  • Hadena silenes silenes
  • Hadena silenes variegata (Turkey)
  • Hadena silenes mesopotamica
  • Hadena silenes csorbai

Biology

Adults are on wing from March to June in one generation in the Near East.

The larvae feed on the seeds of Silene and Cucubalus 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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