Xyleutes

Xyleutes is a genus of moths belonging to the family Cossidae and typical of the tribe Xyleutini.

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
A current list for Xyleutes may include:


 * 1) Xyleutes altitudinis Viette, 1958
 * 2) Xyleutes angasii Felder, 1874
 * 3) Xyleutes armstrongi Hampson, 1914
 * 4) Xyleutes atrosparsellus Walker, 1863
 * 5) Xyleutes auroguttata Herrich-Schäffer, 1854
 * 6) Xyleutes benestriata (Hampson, 1904) (Bahamas)
 * 7) Xyleutes bimaculata Box, 1931
 * 8) Xyleutes bipustulata Walker, 1865
 * 9) Xyleutes borneana Roepke, 1957
 * 10) Xyleutes boschae Heylaerts, 1892
 * 11) Xyleutes castaneus Kenrick, 1913
 * 12) Xyleutes castrellus Schaus, 1922
 * 13) Xyleutes casuarinae Herrich-Schäffer, 1855
 * 14) Xyleutes celebensis Roepke, 1957
 * 15) Xyleutes celebesa Walker, 1865
 * 16) Xyleutes columbina Lucas, 1898
 * 17) Xyleutes columellaris Lucas, 1898
 * 18) Xyleutes combustus Kenrick, 1913
 * 19) Xyleutes cretacea Butler, 1878
 * 20) Xyleutes cretosa Lucas, 1898
 * 21) Xyleutes decorata Swinhoe, 1892
 * 22) Xyleutes desdemona Dyar & Schaus, 1937 (Brasil)
 * 23) Xyleutes dorsipunctellus Schaus, 1922
 * 24) Xyleutes duponchelli Newman, 1856
 * 25) Xyleutes endothermalis Hampson, 1919
 * 26) Xyleutes eucalypti Herrich-Schäffer, 1855
 * 27) Xyleutes fusca Swinhoe, 1892
 * 28) Xyleutes fuscipars Hampson, 1892
 * 29) Xyleutes heinrichi Box, 1931
 * 30) Xyleutes incanellus Hampson, 1895
 * 31) Xyleutes inclusa Walker, 1856
 * 32) Xyleutes insulana Lucas, 1898
 * 33) Xyleutes interlucens Lucas, 1898
 * 34) Xyleutes jamaicensis Schaus, 1901
 * 35) Xyleutes keyensis Strand, 1919 (Maluku islands)
 * 36) Xyleutes lanceolatus Zeller, 1881
 * 37) Xyleutes lecerfi Viette, 1958
 * 38) Xyleutes leucolophus Guérin-Meneville, 1829
 * 39) Xyleutes lillianae Lindsey, 1926
 * 40) Xyleutes liturata Donovan, 1805
 * 41) Xyleutes minutiscripta Lucas, 1898
 * 42) Xyleutes murina Herrich-Schäffer, 1858
 * 43) Xyleutes nebulosa Donovan, 1805
 * 44) Xyleutes nigra Moore, 1877
 * 45) Xyleutes nigristigmellus Hampson, 1895
 * 46) Xyleutes occultoides Kenrick, 1913
 * 47) Xyleutes opposita Walker, 1865
 * 48) Xyleutes paleacea Herrich-Schäffer, 1858
 * 49) Xyleutes pardalis Dudgeon, 1899
 * 50) Xyleutes persona (Le Guillou, 1841) (India, Sri Lanka, South-east Asia to the Solomons, Australia)
 * 51) Xyleutes peruanellus Schaus, 1922
 * 52) Xyleutes pindarus Fawcett, 1916
 * 53) Xyleutes poam (Dyar, 1918) (Mexico)
 * 54) Xyleutes punctifera Hampson, 1898
 * 55) Xyleutes punctifimbria Walker, 1865
 * 56) Xyleutes pustulata Herrich-Schäffer, 1858
 * 57) Xyleutes ramamurthyi Yakovlev & Sankararaman, 2021
 * 58) Xyleutes secta Lucas, 1898
 * 59) Xyleutes simillima Hampson, 1916
 * 60) Xyleutes spectabilis Felder, 1875
 * 61) Xyleutes squamata Hampson, 1919
 * 62) Xyleutes squameus Distant, 1902
 * 63) Xyleutes steniptera Hampson, 1916
 * 64) Xyleutes striata (Druce, 1901) (Colombia)
 * 65) Xyleutes strix (Linnaeus, 1758) (from India, South-east Asia including the Philippines to New Guinea)
 * 66) Xyleutes tectorius Swinhoe, 1901
 * 67) Xyleutes tempestua Lucas, 1898
 * 68) Xyleutes tenebrifera Walker, 1865
 * 69) Xyleutes terrafirma Schaus, 1911 (Costa Rica)
 * 70) Xyleutes tristis Gaede, 1915
 * 71) Xyleutes unilinea Dyar, 1925 (Mexico)
 * 72) Xyleutes vinasella Schaus, 1913
 * 73) Xyleutes xanthotherma Hampson, 1919 (Peru)
 * 74) Xyleutes xuna Dyar, 1937 (Mexico)
 * 75) Xyleutes zeuzeroides Walker, 1865

Species placed elsewhere
Previously this was a large genus, with more than 135 species included in some databases, but many of these may now are placed in the genera:


 * Aethalopteryx
 * Bergaris
 * Brypoctia
 * Chalcidica
 * Duomitus
 * Endoxyla (prev. Luzoniella)
 * Epipomponia
 * Eulophonotus
 * Givira
 * Hermophyllon
 * Morpheis
 * Myelobia
 * Panau
 * Phragmataecia
 * Pseudozeuzera
 * Psychonoctua
 * Rapdalus
 * Roerichiora
 * Skeletophyllon
 * Somatoxena
 * Strigocossus
 * Trismelasmos