Xylena curvimacula Morrison, 1874 is a animal in the Noctuidae family, order Lepidoptera, kingdom Animalia. Not known to be toxic.

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Xylena curvimacula Morrison, 1874

Xylena curvimacula Morrison, 1874

Xylena curvimacula is a swordgrass moth species of Noctuidae found in North America.

Family
Genus
Xylena
Order
Lepidoptera
Class
Insecta

About Xylena curvimacula Morrison, 1874

Xylena curvimacula Morrison, 1874 is commonly called the swordgrass moth or the dot-and-dash swordgrass moth. This species is a cutworm or dart moth, belonging to the family Noctuidae. It is found in North America. The MONA (also known as Hodges) number for this species is 9874.

Photo: (c) Louis Imbeau, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Louis Imbeau · cc-by

Taxonomy

Animalia Arthropoda Insecta Lepidoptera Noctuidae Xylena

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Sources: GBIF, iNaturalist, Wikipedia, NCBI Taxonomy · Disclaimer

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