---
title: "Setaceous Hebrew Character"
description: "Xestia c-nigrum — Insectos y arañas. The setaceous Hebrew character (Xestia c-nigrum) is a moth of the family Noctuidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/es/animal/setaceous-hebrew-character
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Setaceous Hebrew Character

> Xestia c-nigrum — Insectos y arañas. The setaceous Hebrew character (Xestia c-nigrum) is a moth of the family Noctuidae.

- Scientific name: *Xestia c-nigrum*
- Category: `insects` (Insectos y arañas)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 30276
- Wikidata: [Q2094340](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2094340)
- iNaturalist taxon: [203342](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/203342)

## Names

- en: Setaceous Hebrew Character
- de: Schwarzes C
- fr: C-noir
- nl: Zwarte-c-uil
- pl: Rolnica panewka

## Countries with the most observations

GB (7184), DE (3813), AT (2212), FR (2052), CH (1417), RU (1392), DK (1218), ES (1136), SE (958), NL (699), PT (674), US (585)

## Summary

The setaceous Hebrew character (Xestia c-nigrum) is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae. It is found in the Palearctic realm. It is a common species throughout Europe and North Asia and Central Asia, South Asia, China, Japan and Korea. It is also found in North America, from coast to coast across Canada and the northern United States to western Alaska. It occurs in the Rocky Mountains from Montana to southern Arizona and New Mexico. In the east, it ranges from Maine to North Carolina. It has recently been recorded in Tennessee…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setaceous_Hebrew_character

## Photo

![Setaceous Hebrew Character](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/setaceous-hebrew-character/medium.jpg)

Photo: Liubov Ilminska · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/120629213

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/setaceous-hebrew-character?lang=es` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).