title: Hadena sancta
text: # Hadena sancta
  
  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.
  
  ## 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.
  
  