Biology:Xylena cineritia
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Short description: Species of moth
Xylena cineritia | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
Family: | Noctuidae |
Genus: | Xylena |
Species: | X. cineritia
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Binomial name | |
Xylena cineritia (Grote, 1875)
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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
- ↑ "Xylena cineritia Report". https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=188899.
- ↑ "Xylena cineritia". https://www.gbif.org/species/1790362.
- ↑ "Xylena cineritia species Information". https://bugguide.net/node/view/45040.
- ↑ "Species Xylena cineritia - Gray Swordgrass - Hodges#9876". https://bugguide.net/node/view/45040.
- ↑ "North American Moth Photographers Group, Xylena cineritia". http://mothphotographersgroup.msstate.edu/species.php?hodges=9876.
Further reading
- Lafontaine, J. Donald; Schmidt, B. Christian (2010). "Annotated check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico". ZooKeys (40): 127–47. doi:10.3897/zookeys.40.414.
- Lafontaine, J. Donald; Schmidt, B. Christian (2015). "Additions and corrections to the checklist of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico, III". ZooKeys (527): 227–236. doi:10.3897/zookeys.527.6151. PMID 26692790.
- Pohl, Greg; Patterson, Bob; Pelham, Jonathan (2016). Annotated taxonomic checklist of the Lepidoptera of North America, North of Mexico (Report). doi:10.13140/RG.2.1.2186.3287. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/302570819.
Wikidata ☰ Q13490468 entry
Original source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xylena cineritia.
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