Xestia

Xestia est genus lepidopterorum familiae Noctuidarum, typus generis tribus Xestiinorum in subfamilia Noctuinarum, quamquam nonnulli auctopres hanc tribum cum Noctuinis miscent. Speciebus est lata distributio geographica, sed plurimae in regione holarctica endemicae sunt.


Subgenera et species
Subgenus Anomogyna
Xestia albuncula (Eversmann, 1851)
Xestia alpicola (typus Xenopachnobiae)
Xestia badicollis (fortasse melius in X. elimata)
Xestia borealis (Nordström, 1933)
Xestia brunneopicta (Matsumura, 1925)
Xestia caelebs
Xestia dilucida
Xestia distensa (Eversmann, 1851) (aliquando in X. laetabili)
Xestia elimata
Xestia fabulosa (Ferguson, 1965)
Xestia fennica (Brandt, 1936)
Xestia gelida (Sparre-Schneider, 1883) (typus Peranomogynatis)

Xestia imperita (Hübner, [1831])
Xestia infimatis Grote, 1880
Xestia laetabilis (Zetterstedt, [1839]) (typus Anomogynatis)
Xestia mustelina Smith, 1900
Xestia perquiritata
Xestia praevia (fortasse melius in X. elimata)
Xestia rhaetica (typus Synanomogynatis)
Xestia sincera (typus Calanomogynatis)
Xestia speciosa (typus Platagrotis)
Xestia vernilis Grote, 1879
Xestia viridiscens (Turati, 1919) (aliquando in X. speciosa)
Xestia yatsugadakeana (Matsumura, 1926)

Subgenus Megasema
Grex ashworthii/"Ashworthia"
Xestia ashworthii (typus Ashworthiae)
Xestia okakensis Packard, 1867
Xestia okakensis okakensis Packard, 1867
Xestia okakensis morandi (Benjamin, 1934) (aliquando species distincta habita)
Xestia scropulana Morrison, 1874 (olim in X. wockei)
Xestia wockei
Grex kollari
Xestia kollari
Grex c-nigrum
Xestia c-nigrum (typus Cenigriae)
Xestia ditrapezium
Xestia dolosa
Xestia praetermissa Warren (possibly belongs in X. c-nigrum)
Xestia triangulum (typus Megasematis)
Ignotus specierum grex
Xestia inuitica Lafontaine & Hensel, 1998

Subgenus Pachnobia
Xestia alaskae (typus Epipsiliamorphae; fortasse melius in in subgenere Schoyenia)
Xestia atrata (Morrison, 1875) (typus Pterosciae)
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 (typus Loreziae)
Xestia lupa Lafontaine & Mikkola, 1998
Xestia penthima (Erschov, 1870) (typus Hyptioxestae)
Xestia tecta (Hübner, [1808]) (typus Pachnobiae)
Xestia tecta tecta (Hübner, [1808])
Xestia tecta tectoides (Corti, 1926)

Subgenus Schoyenia
Xestia aequaeva (Benjamin, 1934)
Xestia aequaeva aequaeva (Benjamin, 1934)
Xestia aequaeva glaucina Lafontaine & Mikkola, 1996
Xestia brachiptera (Kononenko 1981)
Xestia bryanti (Benjamin, 1933) (= X. acraea)
Xestia fergusoni Lafontaine, 1983
Xestia intermedia (Kononenko, 1981)
Xestia liquidaria (Eversmann, 1848) (= X. arctica Aurivillius, 1883 (non Zetterstedt, 1839: praeoccupatum), X. fasciata, X. unifasciata; typus Schoyeniae)

Xestia lyngei (Rebel, 1923) (typus Lankialaiae)
Xestia lyngei lyngei (Rebel 1923) 
Xestia lyngei aborigenea Kononenko 1983 
Xestia magadanensis Kononenko & Lafontaine 1983
Xestia quieta (typus Archanartae)
Xestia similis Kononenko 1981
Xestia thula Lafontaine & Kononenko, 1983
Xestia woodi Lafontaine & Kononenko, 1983

Subgenus Xestia
Grex baja/"Amathes"
Xestia baja (typus Amathae)
Xestia smithii (fortasse melius in X. baja)
Grex castanea/"Castanasta/Ericathia"
Xestia agathina (typus Ericathiae)
Xestia castanea(typus Castanastae)
Xestia jordani (Turati, 1912)
Grex collina/"Monticollia"
Xestia collina (typus Monticolliae)
Grex ochreago
Xestia ochreago
Grex sexstrigata/"Lytaea"
Xestia sexstrigata (typus Lytaeae)
Grex stigmatica/"Megarhomba"
Xestia sareptana
Xestia stigmatica (typus Megarhombatis)
Grex trifida/"Caloxestia"
Xestia trifida (typus Caloxestiae)
Grex xanthographa/"Segetia"
Xestia cohaesa
Xestia kermesina (Mabille, 1869) (type of Palkermes)
Xestia kermesina kermesina (Mabille, 1869)

Xestia kermesina virescens Turati, 1912
Xestia palaestinensis
Xestia xanthographa (typus Segetiae)
Ignotus specierum grex
Xestia badinosis (Grote, 1874)
Xestia bolteri
Xestia cinerascens (Smith, 1891)
Xestia conchis
Xestia dyris (Zerny, 1934) (tentatively placed here)
Xestia finatimis Lafontaine, 1998
Xestia fuscostigma (Bremer, 1861)
Xestia lithoplana Hreblay & Ronkay 1998 
Xestia mejiasi Pinker, 1961
Xestia normaniana
Xestia oblata (Morrison, 1875)
Xestia substrigata (Smith, 1895)
Xestia verniloides Lafontaine, 1998 

Incertae sedis
Grex Agrotiphila
Xestia colorado (Smith, 1891) (typus Agrotiphilae)
Xestia lankialai (Gronnblom 1962) 
Xestia maculata (Smith, 1893)
Xestia staudingeri (typus Agrotimorphae)

Grex Hypoxestia
Xestia dilatata (Butler, 1879) (typus Hypoxestiae)

Grex ornata
Xestia hypographa
Xestia ornata (olim in Eugraphe)

Grex "Palaeamathes"
Xestia hoenei (Boursin, 1954) (typus Palaeamathis)

Grex Paramathes
Xestia perigrapha (Püngeler, 1899) (typus Paramathis)

Grex retracta/tenuis
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

Grex "Yellow hindwings"
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

Ignotus specierum grex
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) (olim in Eugraphe)
Xestia tamsi (Wileman & West, 1929)
Xestia vidua (Staudinger, 1892)
Xestia yamanei Chang, 1991

Nexus externi

Beck, H. 1996. Systematische Liste der Noctuidae Europas: (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae) ["Systematic list of European Noctuidae"]. Neue Entomologische Nachrichten 36:1–122.
Pitkin, Brian, et Paul Jenkins. 2004. Butterflies and Moths of the World, Generic Names and their Type-species. Xestia. Version 2004-NOV-05.
Savela, Markku. 2009. Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and some other life forms. Xestia. Version 2009-DEC-31.
Varga, Z., et L. Ronkay. 2003. A revision of the Palaearctic species of the Eugraphe Hübner, [1821] 1816 generic complex. Part I. The genera Eugraphe and Goniographa (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae). Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 48(4):333–374. PDF