page_title: Xestia
section_title: Incertae sedis
hierarchical_section_title: Xestia / Species / Incertae sedis
caption_attribution_description: Triphaena [sic] efflorescens Btlr. = Xestia efflorescens (Butler, 1879)
context_page_description: Xestia is a genus of noctuid moths. They are the type genus of the tribe Xestiini in subfamily Noctuinae, though some authors merge this tribe with the Noctuini. Species in this genus are commonly known as "clays", "darts" or "rustics", but such names are commonplace among Noctuidae. Xestia moths have a wide distribution, though they most prominently occur in the Holarctic.
  With almost 200 species included at one time, Xestia was something of a "wastebin genus". But almost half of the traditional species are now placed elsewhere, and some of the remaining ones are liable to be assigned to another genus also. On the other hand, new moths that probably do belong in this genus are still being discovered. Thus, unless there are drastic taxonomic changes in the future, Xestia is likely to remain one of the larger noctuine genera.
context_section_description: If the affiliations of the subgenera are not very much mistaken, most remaining cases of erroneous assignment to Xestia are to be found among the species of uncertain group affiliation here; for the recently described X. kecskerago for example it was explicitly stated that placement in the present genus is tentative. Other species of unclear affiliation are so little known that even their validity remains questionable, though this group equally well seems to contain quite distinct lineages of true Xestia. Also, there are some obvious species groups which do not easily fit into the subgeneric scheme above.
  
  
   
  "Agrotiphila" group
  Xestia colorado (Smith, 1891) (type of Agrotiphila)
  Xestia maculata (Smith, 1893)
  Xestia staudingeri (type of Agrotimorpha)
  "Hypoxestia" group
  Xestia dilatata (Butler, 1879) (type of Hypoxestia)
  ornata group
  Xestia hypographa
  Xestia ornata (formerly in Eugraphe)
  "Palaeamathes" group
  Xestia hoenei (Boursin, 1954) (type of Palaeamathes)
  "Paramathes" group
  Xestia perigrapha (Püngeler, 1899) (type of Paramathes)
  retracta/tenuis group
  Xestia basistriga Yoshimoto, 1995
  Xestia bifurcata Hreblay & Ronkay, 1998
  Xestia coronata Hacker & Peks, 1999
  Xestia destituta (Leech, 1900)
  Xestia forsteri Boursin, 1964
  Xestia hemitragidia (Boursin 1964)
  Xestia nyei Plante, 1979 (= X. longijuxta)
  Xestia retracta
  Xestia schaeferi Hreblay & Ronkay, 1998
  Xestia semiretracta Yoshimoto, 1995
  Xestia subforsteri Hreblay, & Ronkay 1998
  Xestia tenuis (Butler 1889)
  Xestia trifurcata Hacker & Peks, 1999
   
  "Yellow hindwings" group
  Xestia bryocharis Boursin, 1948
  Xestia draesekei Boursin, 1948
  Xestia efflorescens
  Xestia flavilinea Wileman, 1912
  Xestia pseudoaccipiter Boursin, 1948
  Xestia semiherbida (Walker, 1857)
  Xestia sternecki Boursin, 1948
  Xestia triphaenoides Boursin, 1948
  Species group unknown
  Xestia agalma (Püngeler, 1900)
  Xestia albifurca (Erschoff, [1877])
  Xestia cervina (Moore, 1867)
  Xestia consanguinea (Moore, 1881)
  Xestia costaestriga (Staudinger, 1895)
  Xestia crassipuncta (Wileman & West, 1928)
  Xestia homochroma (Hampson 1903)
  Xestia isochroma (Hampson 1903)
  Xestia isolata
  Xestia junctura (Moore, 1881)
  Xestia kecskerago Gyulai & L.Ronkay, 2006
  Xestia latinigra (Prout, 1928)
  Xestia mandarina (Leech, 1900)
  Xestia olivascens (Hampson, 1894)
  Xestia renalis
  Xestia rosifunda (Dyar, 1916)
  Xestia senescens (Staudinger, 1881) (formerly in Eugraphe)
  Xestia tamsi (Wileman & West, 1929)
  Xestia vidua (Staudinger, 1892)
  Xestia yamanei Chang, 1991
caption: Xestia efflorescens, adult
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