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Red Sword-grass
Xylena vetusta
Xylena vetusta, the red sword-grass, is species of moth of the Noctuidae family. It is a Palearctic ecozone species found from north-western Africa through Europe and Asia up to central Siberia. In the north, it is found up to the Arctic Circle and Iceland.
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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 483468.