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Xylena cineritia
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Noctuidae
Genus:	Xylena
Species:	X. cineritia
Binomial name
Xylena cineritia (Grote, 1875)

Xylena cineritia, the gray swordgrass moth, is a species of cutworm or dart moth in the family Noctuidae. It is found in northern North America, from New Jersey to Newfoundland and from California to British Columbia.

It eats alder, birch, blueberry, Buffaloberry (Shepherdia canadensis), elder (Sambucus spp.), maple, meadowsweet, oak, poplar, rose, and willow.

The MONA or Hodges number for Xylena cineritia is 9876.

References

1. "Xylena cineritia Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
2. "Xylena cineritia". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
3. "Xylena cineritia species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
4. "Species Xylena cineritia - Gray Swordgrass - Hodges#9876".
5. "North American Moth Photographers Group, Xylena cineritia". Retrieved 2019-09-24.

Further reading

• Lafontaine, J. Donald; Schmidt, B. Christian (2010). "Annotated check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico". ZooKeys (40): 127–47. doi:10.3897/zookeys.40.414.
• Lafontaine, J. Donald; Schmidt, B. Christian (2015). "Additions and corrections to the checklist of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico, III". ZooKeys (527): 227–236. doi:10.3897/zookeys.527.6151. PMC 4668890. PMID 26692790.
• Pohl, Greg; Patterson, Bob; Pelham, Jonathan (2016). Annotated taxonomic checklist of the Lepidoptera of North America, North of Mexico (Report). doi:10.13140/RG.2.1.2186.3287.

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