Gyulai PÉter
H-3530 Miskolc, Mélyvölgy 13/A, Hungary..
Zootaxa. 2018 Nov 8;4514(3):445-448. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4514.3.10.
The genus Xestia Hübner, 1818 is supposedly a polyphyletic Noctuinae genus, seems to be a complex of lineages, of which the species are often remarkably different externally. Most of the described species are Holarctic. During the last twenty years, 21 new Xestia species and one new subspecies have been described from the eastern Palaearctic (Hreblay, Ronkay, Plante (1998), Hreblay Ronkay (1998), Gyulai Ronkay (2001), Gyulai, Ronkay, Saldaitis (2011, 2013), Gyulai Ronkay (2016), Gyulai (2017)).
Xestia 属由胡伯纳于1818年建立,据推测是一个多系的夜蛾亚科属,似乎是一个谱系复合体,其物种在外部形态上往往有显著差异。大多数已描述的物种分布于全北区。在过去二十年中,从东古北区已描述了21个Xestia新物种和1个新亚种(赫布莱、龙凯、普兰特(1998年),赫布莱、龙凯(1998年),久拉伊、龙凯(2001年),久拉伊、龙凯、萨尔代蒂斯(2011年、2013年),久拉伊、龙凯(2016年),久拉伊(2017年))。