| Higher taxa: | Erebidae (family)/ Hypeninae (subfamily)/ Plathypena (genus)/ |
| Status: | Synonym , the accepted name is Hypena |
| Authorship: | Grote, 1873 |
| Citation: | None |
| Taxon remarks: | Included by Poole (1989) as a junior subjective synonym of Hypena Schrank, 1802. |