- Animals
- ›Arthropods
- ›Hexapods
- ›Insects
- ›Winged and Once-winged Insects
- ›Butterflies and Moths
- ›Owlet Moths and Allies
- ›Cutworm Moths and Allies
- ›Cutworms and Dart Moths
- ›Xylenini
- ›Xylenina
- ›Xylena
American Swordgrass Moth
Xylena nupera
Xylena nupera, known generally as the American swordgrass moth or red swordgrass moth, is a species of cutworm or dart moth in the family Noctuidae. It is found in North America, from New Jersey to Nova Scotia and west from northern California to British Columbia.
The MONA or Hodges number for Xylena nupera is 9873.
Listen
Looking for field recordings…
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
—
geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
Drag the globe to turn it. Dots are where records exist, not a range map; darker means more records.
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Xylena nupera in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 233839.