Hadena silenes is a species of moth of the family Noctuidae.
Forewing ochreous white with redbrown suffusion; claviform stigma black; orbicular and reniform large, their centres brown ringed with white; submarginal line white with black wedge-shaped marks in front of it; hindwing brown, deeper towards termen.
— Larva pale redbrown; dorsal and subdorsal lines fine, whitish grey; lateral stripe broad and whitish; spiracles white with black rings ; on seeds of various kinds of Silene.
A South European species, found in S. France, [Italy], Spain, Sicily, Hungary and Macedonia; also in Armenia, Palestine, and Mesopotamia.
[1] Adults are on wing from March to June in one generation in the Near East.