Hadena wehrlii (Draudt, 1934)

Host plants:
The species is confined to Dianthus species like Dianthus cruentus in Greece.

Habitat:
Hadena wehrlii inhabits warm and dry grasslands and pastures, rocky slopes, steppe forests with clearings and similar habitats in medium high elevations (mostly 1000-2000m asl).

Life cycle:
The moth flies in a single generation in June and July. The caterpillars can be found in July and August. The pupa overwinters. I obtained many larvae from Dianthus cruentus together with more developed Hadena compta from a hot grasslands in Northern Greece in 1000m asl (mid to late July).

Remarks:
Hadena wehrlii is very locally distributed in Southern Europe, so in some Spanish mountains (Sierra Nevada, etc.) and a little more common in the subspecies wehrlii in the southern Balkans (Northern Greece, Albania, Macedonia, South, South-West Bulgaria). In addition, it also occurs from Asia Minor to the Caucasus.