Xestia wockei is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is known from Siberia and northern North America, including Quebec, Newfoundland and Labrador, the Northwest Territories and Yukon.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Noctuidae |
| Genus: | Xestia |
| Species: | X. wockei
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| Xestia wockei (Möschler, 1862)[1]
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Subspecies
edit- Xestia wockei wockei
- Xestia wockei troubridgei[2] Lafontaine, 1998
- Xestia wockei aldani (Herz, 1903)
- Xestia wockei tundrana (A.Bang-Haas, 1912) (South Siberian Mountains, Central Yakutian Lowland and the mountains of north-eastern Siberia)[3]
Xestia scropulana was generally included in X. wockei, but more recent authors usually treat it as distinct species.
References
edit- ^ Xestia at funet
- ^ Ferris, C. D., Kruse, J. J., Lafontaine, J. D., Philip, K. W., Schmidt, B. C., & Sikes, D. S. (2012). A checklist of the moths of Alaska. Zootaxa, 3571(1), 1-25.
- ^ Noctuinae (Noctuidae) collection of Siberian Zoological Museum
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