# Xyleutes

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***Xyleutes***[1] is a genus of [moths](/source/Moth) belonging to the family [Cossidae](/source/Cossidae) and typical of the tribe [Xyleutini](/source/Xyleutini).

Many species of *Xyleutes* are considered as crop or forestry pests. They are stem borers boring the branches and trunks of [coffee](/source/Coffee), [teak](/source/Teak), [eucalyptus](/source/Eucalyptus), [acacia](/source/Acacia) and other forest trees.

## Species

A current list for *Xyleutes* may include:[2][3][4][5]

1. *[Xyleutes altitudinis](/source/Xyleutes_altitudinis)* Viette, 1958
1. *[Xyleutes angasii](/source/Xyleutes_angasii)* Felder, 1874
1. *[Xyleutes armstrongi](/source/Xyleutes_armstrongi)* Hampson, 1914
1. *[Xyleutes atrosparsellus](/source/Xyleutes_atrosparsellus)* Walker, 1863
1. *[Xyleutes auroguttata](/source/Xyleutes_auroguttata)* Herrich-Schäffer, 1854
1. *[Xyleutes benestriata](/source/Xyleutes_benestriata)* (Hampson, 1904) (Bahamas)
1. *[Xyleutes bimaculata](/source/Xyleutes_bimaculata)* Box, 1931
1. *[Xyleutes bipustulata](/source/Xyleutes_bipustulata)* Walker, 1865
1. *[Xyleutes borneana](/source/Xyleutes_borneana)* Roepke, 1957
1. *[Xyleutes boschae](/source/Xyleutes_boschae)* Heylaerts, 1892
1. *[Xyleutes castaneus](/source/Xyleutes_castaneus)* Kenrick, 1913
1. *[Xyleutes castrellus](/source/Xyleutes_castrellus)* Schaus, 1922
1. *[Xyleutes casuarinae](/source/Xyleutes_casuarinae)* Herrich-Schäffer, 1855
1. *[Xyleutes celebensis](/source/Xyleutes_celebensis)* Roepke, 1957
1. *[Xyleutes celebesa](/source/Xyleutes_celebesa)* Walker, 1865
1. *[Xyleutes columbina](/source/Xyleutes_columbina)* Lucas, 1898
1. *[Xyleutes columellaris](/source/Xyleutes_columellaris)* Lucas, 1898
1. *[Xyleutes combustus](/source/Xyleutes_combustus)* Kenrick, 1913
1. *[Xyleutes cretacea](/source/Xyleutes_cretacea)* Butler, 1878
1. *[Xyleutes cretosa](/source/Xyleutes_cretosa)* Lucas, 1898
1. *[Xyleutes decorata](/source/Xyleutes_decorata)* Swinhoe, 1892
1. *[Xyleutes desdemona](/source/Xyleutes_desdemona)* Dyar & Schaus, 1937 (Brasil)
1. *[Xyleutes dorsipunctellus](/source/Xyleutes_dorsipunctellus)* Schaus, 1922
1. *[Xyleutes duponchelli](/source/Xyleutes_duponchelli)* Newman, 1856
1. *[Xyleutes endothermalis](/source/Xyleutes_endothermalis)* Hampson, 1919
1. *[Xyleutes eucalypti](/source/Xyleutes_eucalypti)* Herrich-Schäffer, 1855
1. *[Xyleutes fusca](/source/Xyleutes_fusca)* Swinhoe, 1892
1. *[Xyleutes fuscipars](/source/Xyleutes_fuscipars)* Hampson, 1892
1. *[Xyleutes heinrichi](/source/Xyleutes_heinrichi)* Box, 1931
1. *[Xyleutes incanellus](/source/Xyleutes_incanellus)* Hampson, 1895
1. *[Xyleutes inclusa](/source/Xyleutes_inclusa)* Walker, 1856
1. *[Xyleutes insulana](/source/Xyleutes_insulana)* Lucas, 1898
1. *[Xyleutes interlucens](/source/Xyleutes_interlucens)* Lucas, 1898
1. *[Xyleutes jamaicensis](/source/Xyleutes_jamaicensis)* Schaus, 1901
1. *[Xyleutes keyensis](/source/Xyleutes_keyensis)* Strand, 1919 ([Maluku islands](/source/Maluku_islands))
1. *[Xyleutes lanceolatus](/source/Xyleutes_lanceolatus)* Zeller, 1881
1. *[Xyleutes lecerfi](/source/Xyleutes_lecerfi)* Viette, 1958
1. *[Xyleutes leucolophus](/source/Xyleutes_leucolophus)* Guérin-Meneville, 1829
1. *[Xyleutes lillianae](/source/Xyleutes_lillianae)* Lindsey, 1926
1. *[Xyleutes liturata](/source/Xyleutes_liturata)* Donovan, 1805
1. *[Xyleutes minutiscripta](/source/Xyleutes_minutiscripta)* Lucas, 1898
1. *[Xyleutes murina](/source/Xyleutes_murina)* Herrich-Schäffer, 1858
1. *[Xyleutes nebulosa](/source/Xyleutes_nebulosa)* Donovan, 1805
1. *[Xyleutes nigra](/source/Xyleutes_nigra)* Moore, 1877
1. *[Xyleutes nigristigmellus](/source/Xyleutes_nigristigmellus)* Hampson, 1895
1. *[Xyleutes occultoides](/source/Xyleutes_occultoides)* Kenrick, 1913
1. *[Xyleutes opposita](/source/Xyleutes_opposita)* Walker, 1865
1. *[Xyleutes paleacea](/source/Xyleutes_paleacea)* Herrich-Schäffer, 1858
1. *[Xyleutes pardalis](/source/Xyleutes_pardalis)* Dudgeon, 1899
1. *[Xyleutes persona](/source/Xyleutes_persona)* (Le Guillou, 1841) (India, Sri Lanka, South-east Asia to the Solomons, Australia)
1. *[Xyleutes peruanellus](/source/Xyleutes_peruanellus)* Schaus, 1922
1. *[Xyleutes pindarus](/source/Xyleutes_pindarus)* Fawcett, 1916
1. *[Xyleutes poam](/source/Xyleutes_poam)* (Dyar, 1918) (Mexico)
1. *[Xyleutes punctifera](/source/Xyleutes_punctifera)* Hampson, 1898
1. *[Xyleutes punctifimbria](/source/Xyleutes_punctifimbria)* Walker, 1865
1. *[Xyleutes pustulata](/source/Xyleutes_pustulata)* Herrich-Schäffer, 1858
1. *[Xyleutes ramamurthyi](/source/Xyleutes_ramamurthyi)* Yakovlev & Sankararaman, 2021
1. *[Xyleutes secta](/source/Xyleutes_secta)* Lucas, 1898
1. *[Xyleutes simillima](/source/Xyleutes_simillima)* Hampson, 1916
1. *[Xyleutes spectabilis](/source/Xyleutes_spectabilis)* Felder, 1875
1. *[Xyleutes squamata](/source/Xyleutes_squamata)* Hampson, 1919
1. *[Xyleutes squameus](/source/Xyleutes_squameus)* Distant, 1902
1. *[Xyleutes steniptera](/source/Xyleutes_steniptera)* Hampson, 1916
1. *[Xyleutes striata](/source/Xyleutes_striata)* (Druce, 1901) (Colombia)
1. *[Xyleutes strix](/source/Xyleutes_strix)* (Linnaeus, 1758) (from India, South-east Asia including the Philippines to New Guinea)
1. *[Xyleutes tectorius](/source/Xyleutes_tectorius)* Swinhoe, 1901
1. *[Xyleutes tempestua](/source/Xyleutes_tempestua)* Lucas, 1898
1. *[Xyleutes tenebrifera](/source/Xyleutes_tenebrifera)* Walker, 1865
1. *[Xyleutes terrafirma](/source/Xyleutes_terrafirma)* Schaus, 1911 (Costa Rica)
1. *[Xyleutes tristis](/source/Xyleutes_tristis)* Gaede, 1915
1. *[Xyleutes unilinea](/source/Xyleutes_unilinea)* Dyar, 1925 (Mexico)
1. *[Xyleutes vinasella](/source/Xyleutes_vinasella)* Schaus, 1913
1. *[Xyleutes xanthotherma](/source/Xyleutes_xanthotherma)* Hampson, 1919 (Peru)
1. *[Xyleutes xuna](/source/Xyleutes_xuna)* Dyar, 1937 (Mexico)
1. *[Xyleutes zeuzeroides](/source/Xyleutes_zeuzeroides)* Walker, 1865

### Species placed elsewhere

Previously this was a large genus, with more than 135 species included in some databases,[5] but many of these may now are placed in the genera:

- *[Aethalopteryx](/source/Aethalopteryx)*
- *[Bergaris](/source/Bergaris)*
- *[Brypoctia](/source/Brypoctia)*
- *[Chalcidica](/source/Chalcidica)*
- *[Duomitus](/source/Duomitus)*
- *[Endoxyla](/source/Endoxyla_(moth))* (prev. *Luzoniella*)
- *[Epipomponia](/source/Epipomponia)*
- *[Eulophonotus](/source/Eulophonotus)*
- *[Givira](/source/Givira)*
- *[Hermophyllon](/source/Hermophyllon)*
- *[Morpheis](/source/Morpheis)*
- *[Myelobia](/source/Myelobia)*
- *[Panau](/source/Panau_(moth))*
- *[Phragmataecia](/source/Phragmataecia)*
- *[Pseudozeuzera](/source/Pseudozeuzera)*
- *[Psychonoctua](/source/Psychonoctua)*
- *[Rapdalus](/source/Rapdalus)*
- *[Roerichiora](/source/Roerichiora)*
- *[Skeletophyllon](/source/Skeletophyllon)*
- *[Somatoxena](/source/Somatoxena)*
- *[Strigocossus](/source/Strigocossus)*
- *[Trismelasmos](/source/Trismelasmos)*

## References

1. Hübner (1820) *Verz. bekannt. Schmett.*: 195.

1. , 1959: Notes on African Cossidae. *Veröffentlichungen der Zoologischen Staatssammlung München*, **6**: 3-27. Full article: [\[1\]](https://www.landesmuseum.at/pdf_frei_remote/VeroeffZSM_006_0001-0028.pdf).

1. , 2004: Cossidae of Thailand. Part 1. (Lepidoptera: Cossidae). *Atalanta* **35 (3-4)**: 335–351.

1. , 2009: The Carpenter Moths (Lepidoptera:Cossidae) of Vietnam. *Entomofauna* **Supplement 16**: 11–32.

1. [BioLib.cz](https://www.biolib.cz/en/taxon/id271244/): *Xyleutes* Hübner, 1820 (retrieved 1 February 2022)]

## External links

- [www.nhm.ac.uk](http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/research/projects/butmoth/search/GenusDetails.dsml?NUMBER=30727.0&AUTHORqtype=starts+with&sort=GENUS&SUBTRIBEqtype=starts+with&YEARqtype=equals&GENUSqtype=starts+with&TRIBEqtype=starts+with&GENUS=Xyleutes&SUBFAMILYqtype=starts+with&FAMILYqtype=starts+with&beginIndex=0&listPageURL=GenusList3%2edsml%3fAUTHORqtype%3dstarts%2bwith%26sort%3dGENUS%26SUBTRIBEqtype%3dstarts%2bwith%26YEARqtype%3dequals%26GENUSqtype%3dstarts%2bwith%26TRIBEqtype%3dstarts%2bwith%26GENUS%3dXyleutes%26SUBFAMILYqtype%3dstarts%2bwith%26FAMILYqtype%3dstarts%2bwith&searchPageURL=index%2edsml%3fAUTHORqtype%3dstarts%2bwith%26sort%3dGENUS%26SUBTRIBEqtype%3dstarts%2bwith%26YEARqtype%3dequals%26GENUSqtype%3dstarts%2bwith%26TRIBEqtype%3dstarts%2bwith%26GENUS%3dXyleutes%26SUBFAMILYqtype%3dstarts%2bwith%26FAMILYqtype%3dstarts%2bwith)
- [biodiversityexplorer: List of Vari](http://www.biodiversityexplorer.org/lepidoptera/cossidae/xyleutes.htm) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20160304063531/http://www.biodiversityexplorer.org/lepidoptera/cossidae/xyleutes.htm) 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine
- [Moth of Borneo](http://www.mothsofborneo.com/part-1/cossidae/gallery.php)
- [ftp.funet.fi](https://ftp.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/cossoidea/cossidae/zeuzerinae/xyleutes/index.html)

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