Xylena
Encyclopedia
Xylena is a genus
of moth
s of the Noctuidae
family.
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of moth
Moth
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 , with thousands of species yet to be described...
s of the Noctuidae
Noctuidae
The Noctuidae or owlet moths are a family of robustly-built moths that includes more than 35,000 known species out of possibly 100,000 total, in more than 4,200 genera. They constitute the largest family in the Lepidoptera....
family.
Species
- Xylena apicimacula Yoshimoto, 1993
- Xylena brucei (Smith, 1892)
- Xylena buckwelli Rungs, 1952
- Xylena changi Horie, 1993
- Xylena cineritia (Grote, 1874)
- Xylena confusa Kononenko & Ronkay, 1998
- Xylena curvimacula (Morrison, 1874)
- Xylena exsoletaXylena exsoletaThe Sword-grass is a species of moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found from the Canary Islands and north-western Africa through Europe, the...
– Sword-Grass (Linnaeus, 1758) - Xylena formosa (Butler, 1878)
- Xylena fumosa (Butler, 1878)
- Xylena lunifera (Warren, 1010)
- Xylena nepalina Yoshimoto, 1993
- Xylena nihonica (Hoene, 1917)
- Xylena nupera (Lintner, 1874)
- Xylena plumbeopaca Hreblay & Ronkay, 2000
- Xylena sugii Kobayashi, 1993
- Xylena tanabei Owada, 1993
- Xylena tatajiana Chang, 1991
- Xylena thoracica (Putnam-Cramer, 1886)
- Xylena vetustaXylena vetustaThe Red Sword-grass is a species of moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found from north-western Africa through Europe and Asia up to central Siberia. North, it is found up to the Polar circle and Iceland.The wingspan is 52-65 mm...
– Red Sword-Grass (Hübner, [1813])