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Hadena sancta

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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

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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

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

Biology

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

The larvae feed on the seeds of Silene species.

References

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  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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