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Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Panorpida
Cladus: Amphiesmenoptera
Ordo: Lepidoptera
Subordo: Glossata
Cladus: Coelolepida
Cladus: Myoglossata
Cladus: Neolepidoptera
Infraordo: Heteroneura
Cladus: Eulepidoptera
Cladus: Ditrysia
Cladus: Apoditrysia
Cladus: Obtectomera
Cladus: Macroheterocera
Superfamilia: Noctuoidea

Familia: Noctuidae
Subfamilia: Noctuinae
Tribus: Xylenini
Subtribus: Xylenina
Genus: Xylena
Species: X. alexander – X. andreas – X. apicimacula – X. changi – X. czernilai – X. exsoleta – X. ezernilai – X. nepalina – X. nihonica – X. plumbeopaca – X. sugii – X. tanabei – X. tataijana
Name

Xylena Ochsenheimer, 1816

Type species: Phalaena exsoleta Linnaeus, 1758
Synonyms

Xylites
Axylia Hübner, 1821
Xylina Treitschke, 1826
Calocampa Stephens, 1829
Callicampa Agassiz, 1847
Monoxylena Beck, 1996

References

Benedek, B. ; Saldaitis, A. & Babics, J., 2013: Taxonomic and faunistic news of the tribus Xylenini (s. l.) (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae) from the greater Himalayan region. Esperiana, Buchreihe zur Entomologie, 18: 7–38. Full article: [1].
Fibiger, M. ; P. Sammut ; A. Seguna & A. Catania, 2006: Recent records of Noctuidae from Malta, with five species new to the European fauna, and a new subspecies. Nota Lepidopterologica 29 (3/4): 193—213. Full article: [2].
Hreblay, M. & Ronkay, L., 2000: New Noctuidae species and subspecies from Taiwan and the Adjacent Areas II (Lepidoptera). Insects Koreana 17 (1-2): 1–38.
Owada, M., Horie, K. & Kobayashi, H. 1993. Three new species of Xylena (Noctuidae, CucuUiinae) from Taiwan. Tinea 13(28): 279–288. Reference page.
Ronkay, G. , L. Ronkay, P. Gyulai & H.H. Hacker, 2010: New Xylenini (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae, Xyleninae) species and genera from the wide sense Himalayan region Esperiana Buchreihe zur Entomologie 15: 245–358.
Saldaitis, A., Volynkin, A.V. & Benedek, B. 2017. On the synonymy of some taxa of the genus Xylena Hübner (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae). Zootaxa 4350(3): 583–586. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4350.3.10. Reference page.
Volynkin, A.V., 2011: Two new species of Xyleninae Guenée, 1837 from the Altai Mountain Country (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae). Atalanta 42 (1-4): 237–243.


Xylena is a genus of moths of the family Noctuidae.
Species

Xylena apicimacula Yoshimoto, 1993
Xylena brucei – Bruce's swordgrass (Smith, 1892)
Xylena buckwelli Rungs, 1952
Xylena changi Horie, 1993
Xylena cineritia – gray swordgrass (Grote, 1874)
Xylena confusa Kononenko & Ronkay, 1998
Xylena curvimacula – dot-and-dash swordgrass (Morrison, 1874)
Xylena exsoleta – sword-grass (Linnaeus, 1758)
Xylena formosa (Butler, 1878)
Xylena fumosa (Butler, 1878)
Xylena lunifera (Warren, 1010)
Xylena nepalina Yoshimoto, 1993
Xylena nihonica (Hoene, 1917)
Xylena nupera – American swordgrass (Lintner, 1874)
Xylena plumbeopaca Hreblay & Ronkay, 2000
Xylena sugii Kobayashi, 1993
Xylena tanabei Owada, 1993
Xylena tatajiana Chang, 1991
Xylena thoracica – acadian swordgrass (Putnam-Cramer, 1886)
Xylena vetusta – red sword-grass (Hübner, [1813])

References

Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
Xylena at funet.fi

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