Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Flowing-line Hypena (Hypena manalis) is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found from Minnesota to Nova Scotia, south to Florida and Texas. The wingspan is 23 28 mm. The moth flies from May to September in the south and from June to August in the north. There two to three generations per year.The larvae feed on false nettle, but have also been reared on dandelion and on dock. A moth is an insect closely related to the butterfly, both being of the order Lepidoptera. Moths form the majority of this order; there are thought to be 150,000 to 250,000 different species of moth (about ten times the number of species of butterfly), with thousands of species yet to be described.