Xestia c-nigrum

TaxID: 987431

Basic Information

Xestia c-nigrum

Cutworm Moth, Spotted Cutworm, spotted cutworm

The setaceous Hebrew character (Xestia c-nigrum) is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae. It is found in the Palearctic realm. It is a common species throughout Europe and North Asia and Central Asia, South Asia, China, Japan and Korea. It is also found in North America, from coast to coast across Canada and the northern United States to western Alaska. It occurs in the Rocky Mountains from Montana to southern Arizona and New Mexico. In the east, it ranges from Maine to North Carolina. It has recently been recorded in Tennessee. The forewings of this species are reddish brown with distinctive patterning towards the base: a black mark resembling the Hebrew letter nun (?), thus inspiring the common name, with a pale cream-coloured area adjacent to this mark. The hindwings are cream coloured. "Setaceous", meaning "having bristles", refers to the hairs on the top of the thorax and fringing the wings.

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Taxonomic Information

Eukaryota

Arthropoda

Insecta

Lepidoptera

Noctuidae

Xestia

c-nigrum

nan

Photos (5 photos)

Xestia c-nigrum
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(c) Michał Brzeziński@BY-NC
Xestia c-nigrum
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(c) Michał Brzeziński@BY-NC
Xestia c-nigrum
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(c) unknown@CC0
Xestia c-nigrum
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(c) joannerusso@BY-NC
Xestia c-nigrum
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(c) Jean-Paul COAT@BY-NC

Morphological Features

Adult. Body and forewing ground colour dark brown in males, with broadly reddish suffusion in the subterminal and terminal area; in females, forewing ground colour much lighter, whitish, somewhat pale greenish suffused in the basal and subterminal field, reddish suffusion located only to the subterminal line and partly in the terminal field. Collar black outlined and greyish in both sexes. A large, conspicuous black patch present in the forewing costa close to the apex in both sexes. Antennae of males much stronger bipectinate than in the similar species Xestia lithoplana. Orbicular stigmata less elongated, medial area much broader than in X. lithoplana. Male genitalia: uncus, valvae, harpe, pollex, and aedeagus shape and size differ from X. lithoplana; aedeagus curved, vesica broadly tubular, recurved dorsad, subbasal plate weakly sclerotized, broadly subquadrangular, with a tiny cornutus medially. Female genitalia: ovipositor lobes quadrangular, setose, apically hairy; apophyses short, fine, apophyses posteriores about two times longer than the anteriores.

Source: GBIF Life Stage: Adult Source Type: Taxonomic treatment
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Plazi taxonomic treatment

Host Plants (0 host plants)

Data sources: EPPO Global Database and relevant literature.

No host plants available.

Quarantine Status (9 records)

Data sources: IPPC website and national quarantine websites; verified by human review.

Country Status Year Added
Brazil A1 list 2018
Chile Quarantine pests 2019
Ecuador Quarantine pests —
Guatemala Absent —
Moldova Quarantine pests —
Mexico Quarantine pests 2018
Panama Quarantine pests —
Uruguay Absent —
United States of America Quarantine pests —

Distribution (60 countries)

Data Sources: EPPO Global Database and GBIF.

60
Present
0
Absent
0
Unknown/Other
Country Status State
Andorra Present —
Armenia Present —
Austria Present —
Azerbaijan Present —
Belgium Present —
Bulgaria Present —
Bosnia and Herzegovina Present —
Belarus Present —
Bhutan Present —
Canada Present —
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Distribution Map (Latitude and longitude coordinates sourced from GBIF.)

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Genomes (2 records)

Data source: NCBI.

Assembly Accession Assembly Level Genome Size(Mb) Contig N50(Kb) Scaffold N50(Kb) BUSCO% Downloads Actions
GCA_916618015.1 Chromosome 760 25037 25717 -
GCA_916617455.1 Contig 751 6045 6045 -

Transcriptomes (3 records)

Data source: NCBI.

Run ID Tissue Developmental Stage Sex Read Count Location Actions
SRR10821371 all tissue - - 25576307 China
SRR10821370 all tissue - - 28200333 China
ERR9435011 - - NOT COLLECTED 18760839 -

DNA Barcodes (454 records)

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Data source: BOLD.

Process ID BIN Marker Length Country Date Lat/Lon Sequence
ZMBN361-16 BOLD:AAA2144 COI-5P 658 Norway 2016-09-01 60.7005, 5.100944
XAK434-06 BOLD:AAA2144 COI-5P 658 Canada 2006-07-01 44.53, -77.0
XAK337-06 BOLD:AAA2144 COI-5P 658 Canada 2006-07-28 44.53, -77.0
XAJ549-06 BOLD:AAA2144 COI-5P 658 Canada 2006-06-01 43.537, -80.134
XAH605-05 BOLD:AAA2144 COI-5P 658 Canada 2005-09-27 43.537, -80.134
XAH562-05 BOLD:AAA2144 COI-5P 658 Canada 2005-09-24 43.537, -80.134
XAH549-05 BOLD:AAA2144 COI-5P 658 Canada 2005-09-23 43.537, -80.134
XAH530-05 BOLD:AAA2144 COI-5P 658 Canada 2005-09-21 43.537, -80.134
XAH223-05 BOLD:AAA2144 COI-5P 658 Canada 2005-08-29 43.537, -80.134
XAH087-05 - COI-5P 584 Canada 2005-08-25 43.537, -80.134
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Literature