page_title: Xestia
section_title: Subgenus Pachnobia
hierarchical_section_title: Xestia / Species / Subgenus Pachnobia
caption_attribution_description: [Episilia] loresi [sic] (Staud.) = Xestia lorezi lorezi (Staudinger, 1891), ♂, Tyrol ("Tirol").
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: Xestia alaskae (type of Epipsiliamorpha; tentatively placed here, may belong in subgenus Schoyenia)
  Xestia atrata (Morrison, 1875) (type of Pteroscia)
  Xestia atrata atrata (Morrison, 1874)
  Xestia atrata filipjevi (Shljuzhko, 1926)
  Xestia atrata haraldi Fibiger, 1997
  Xestia atrata ursae (McDunnough, 1940)
  Xestia atrata yukona (McDunnough, 1921)
  Xestia kolymae (Herz, 1903)
   
  Xestia kruegeri Kononenko & Schmitz, 2004
  Xestia laxa Lafontaine & Mikkola, 1998
  Xestia lorezi (type of Lorezia)
  Xestia lupa Lafontaine & Mikkola, 1998
  Xestia penthima (Erschoff, 1870) (type of Hyptioxesta)
  Xestia tecta (Hübner, [1808]) (type of Pachnobia)
  Xestia tecta tecta (Hübner, [1808])
  Xestia tecta tectoides (Corti, 1926)
caption: X. (Pachnobia) lorezi lorezi, adult male
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