Xylena cineritia: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Noctuidae
- Genus
- Xylena
- Species
- Xylena cineritia
- Scientific Name
- Xylena cineritia
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Xylena cineritia
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.
It eats alder, birch, blueberry, Buffaloberry (Shepherdia canadensis), elder (Sambucus spp.), maple, meadowsweet, oak, poplar, rose, and willow.
The MONA or Hodges number for Xylena cineritia is 9876.
...Xylena cineritia in languages:
- English
- Gray Swordgrass Moth
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Xylena alexander
- Xylena andreas
- Xylena apicimacula
- Xylena brucei
- Xylena buckwelli
- Xylena changi
- Xylena cineritia
- Xylena confusa
- Xylena consimilis
- Xylena curvimacula
- Xylena czernilae
- Xylena demaculata
- Xylena exsoleta
- Xylena formosa
- Xylena fumosa
- Xylena lignipennis
- Xylena lunifera
- Xylena nepalina
- Xylena nihonica
- Xylena nupera
- Xylena plumbeopaca
- Xylena solidaginis
- Xylena sugii
- Xylena tanabei
- Xylena tatajiana
- Xylena thoracica
- Xylena vetusta






































































































