Xyleutes

Life-forms

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
Superfamilia: Cossoidea

Familia: Cossidae
Subfamilia: Zeuzerinae
Genus: Xyleutes
Species: X. adusta – X. atriplaga – X. clara – X. forsteri – X. keyensis – X. persona – X. ramamurthyi – X. sjoestedti – X. stenoptera – X. strix
Name

Xyleutes Hübner, 1816

Type locality: Phalaena strix Linnaeus, 1758 by subsequent designation by Kirby, 1897
References

Clench, H.K., 1959: Notes on African Cossidae. Veröffentlichungen der Zoologischen Staatssammlung München, 6: 3–27. Full article: [1].
Yakovlev, R.V., 2004: Cossidae of Thailand. Part 1. (Lepidoptera: Cossidae). Atalanta 35 (3-4): 335–351.
Yakovlev, R.V., Sankararaman, H., Balaji, R.K. & Balakrishnan, V. 2021. A world catalogue of Xyleutes Hübner, 1820 (Lepidoptera: Cossidae: Zeuzerinae) with description of a new species from the Western Ghats of India. Zootaxa 5040(4): 565–574. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5040.4.6. Paywall. Reference page.
Yakovlev, R.V. & Witt, T.J. 2009. The Carpenter Moths (Lepidoptera, Cossidae) of Vietnam. Entomofauna Supplement 16: 11-32. full article (pdf).Reference page.

Xyleutes is a genus of moths belonging to the family Cossidae.

Many species of Xyleutes are considered as crop or forestry pests. They are stem borers boring the branches and trunks of coffee, teak, eucalyptus, acacia and other forest trees.
Species

Some species of this genus are:

Xyleutes benestriata (Hampson, 1904) (Bahamas)
Xyleutes desdemona Dyar & Schaus, 1937
Xyleutes keyensis Strand, 1919
Xyleutes persona (le Guillou, 1841) (India, Sri Lanka, South-east Asia to the Solomons, Australia)
Xyleutes poam (Dyar, 1918) (Mexico)
Xyleutes striata (Druce, 1901)
Xyleutes strix (Linnaeus, 1758) (from India to New Guinea and Philippines)
Xyleutes terrafirma (Schaus, 1911)
Xyleutes unilinea (Dyar, 1925)
Xyleutes xanthotherma (Hampson, 1919) (Peru)
Xyleutes xuna Dyar & Schaus, 1937

Former species

Xyleutes acontucha
Xyleutes adusta Roepke, 1957
Xyleutes affinis Rothschild, 1896
Xyleutes anceps Snellen, 1900
Xyleutes atriplaga Le Cerf, 1919
Xyleutes biatra (Hampson, 1910)
Xyleutes boisduvali Rothschild, 1896
Xyleutes capensis Walker
Xyleutes ceramica (Walker, 1865)
Xyleutes clara Bryk, 1950
Xyleutes crassus (Drury, 1780)
Xyleutes dictyograpta Roepke, 1957
Xyleutes dictyotephra Clench, 1959
Xyleutes d'urvillei Herrich-Schäffer, 1854
Xyleutes euphyes West, 1932
Xyleutes forsteri Clench, 1959
Xyleutes hyphinoe (Cramer, 1777)
Xyleutes leuconotus (Walker, 1856)
Xyleutes lutescens Roepke, 1957
Xyleutes lunifera (Hampson, 1910)
Xyleutes maculatus (Snellen, 1879)
Xyleutes malayica Roepke, 1957
Xyleutes mineus (Cramer, 1777)
Xyleutes pardicolor (Moore, 1879)
Xyleutes polioplaga (Hampson, 1910)
Xyleutes quarlesi
Xyleutes sjoestedti (Aurivillius, 1900)
Xyleutes stenoptera Roepke, 1957
Xyleutes stephania (Druce, 1887)
Xyleutes unimaculosa (Matsumura, 1931)
Xyleutes vosseleri Gaede, 1929

References

Clench, H.K., 1959: Notes on African Cossidae. Veröffentlichungen der Zoologischen Staatssammlung München, 6: 3-27. Full article: [1].
Yakovlev, R.V., 2004: Cossidae of Thailand. Part 1. (Lepidoptera: Cossidae). Atalanta 35 (3-4): 335-351.
Yakovlev, R.V. & T.J. Witt, 2009: The Carpenter Moths (Lepidoptera:Cossidae) of Vietnam. Entomofauna Supplement 16: 11-32.
Hübner, 1820 . Verz. bekannt. Schmett. : 195
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