''Hypena lividalis'' is a

moth Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of w ...

of the family

Erebidae The Erebidae are a family of moths in the superfamily Noctuoidea. The family is among the largest families of moths by species count and contains a wide variety of well-known macromoth groups. The family includes the underwings ('' Catocala'') ...

. It has an

Afrotropical The Afrotropical realm is one of Earth's eight biogeographic realms. It includes Africa south of the Sahara Desert, the majority of the Arabian Peninsula, the island of Madagascar, southern Iran and extreme southwestern Pakistan, and the island ...

and possibly Circumtropical distribution. It is known from the western parts of the

Palearctic realm The Palearctic or Palaearctic is the largest of the eight biogeographic realms of the Earth. It stretches across all of Eurasia north of the foothills of the Himalayas, and North Africa. The realm consists of several bioregions: the Euro-Sibe ...

and the

Neotropical realm The Neotropical realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms constituting Earth's land surface. Physically, it includes the tropical terrestrial ecoregions of the Americas and the entire South American temperate zone. Definition In bioge ...

. Adults are on wing year round. There are multiple generations per year. The larvae feed on ''

Parietaria ''Parietaria'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Urticaceae, native to temperate and tropical regions across the world.Flora Europaea''Parietaria''/ref>African Flowering Plants Database''Parietaria'' (enter genus name in search box)/ref ...

'' and ''

Urtica ''Urtica'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Urticaceae. Many species have stinging hairs and may be called nettles or stinging nettles, although the latter name applies particularly to ''Urtica dioica''. ''Urtica'' species are food f ...

'' species.

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''Fauna Europaea''''Lepiforum e. V.''
lividalis Moths described in 1796 Moths of Europe Owlet moths of Africa Moths of Cape Verde Moths of Madagascar Moths of Africa Moths of the Middle East Taxa named by Jacob Hübner {{Hypeninae-stub