Biology:Xylena cineritia

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Short description: Species of moth

Xylena cineritia
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Noctuidae
Genus: Xylena
Species:
X. cineritia
Binomial name
Xylena cineritia
(Grote, 1875)

Xylena cineritia, the gray swordgrass moth, is a species of cutworm or dart moth in the family Noctuidae. It is found in northern North America, from New Jersey to Newfoundland and from California to British Columbia.[1][2][3]

It eats alder, birch, blueberry, Buffaloberry (Shepherdia canadensis), elder (Sambucus spp.), maple, meadowsweet, oak, poplar, rose, and willow.[4]

The MONA or Hodges number for Xylena cineritia is 9876.[5]

References

Further reading

Wikidata ☰ Q13490468 entry