Xyleutes

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

Xyleutes
Xyleutes strix
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Cossidae
Subfamily:	Zeuzerinae
Genus:	Xyleutes Hübner, [1820]
Type species
Phalaena strix Linnaeus, 1758
Species
See text
Synonyms
Hinnaeya Moore, 1883 Melanostrigus Houlbert, 1916 Strigomorphus Houlbert, 1916 Strigoides Guérin-Méneville, 1844 Hyleutes Gaede, 1915 Kyleutes Clench, 1959

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: .
• 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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