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.

[thumb|*[Xestia xanthographa,* aliquando in *Segetia* digesta.]]

## Subgenera et species
### Subgenus *Anomogyna*
[thumb|*[Xestia caelebs|X. (Anomogyna) caelebs*, mas adultus.]]
[thumb|*[Xestia kollari|X. (Megasema) kollari kollari*, mas adultus.]]
**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*
[thumb|*[Xestia c-nigrum|X. (Megasema) c-nigrum deraiota*, mas adultus.]]
[thumb|[Eruca *Xestiae trianguli.*]]
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*
[thumb|*[Xestia lorezi|X. (Pachnobia) lorezi lorezi*, mas adultus.]]
**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*
[thumb|*[Xestia quieta|X. (Schoyenia) quieta*, adulta.]]
**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
[thumb|*[Xestia palaestinensis|X. (Xestia) palaestinensis*, femina adulta.]]

### Subgenus *Xestia*
[thumb|right|*[Xestia bolteri|X. (Xestia) bolteri*, femina adulta.]]
[thumb|right|*[Xestia conchis|X. (Xestia) conchis*, femina adulta.]]
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*
[thumb|*[Xestia staudingeri*, mas adultus.]]
[thumb|*[Xestia retracta*, mas adultus.]]
[thumb|*[Xestia efflorescens*, adultus.]]
[thumb|*[Xestia renalis*, mas adultus.]]
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