Xerogyra

{{Short description|Genus of land snails}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Xerogyra_spadae.jpg

| image_caption = Apertural view of the shell of Xerogyra spadae

| taxon = Xerogyra

| authority = Monterosato, 1892

| type_species = Helix spadae

| type_species_authority = Calcara, 1845

}}

Xerogyra{{Cite journal|last=Monterosato|first=T. A. di|date=1892|title=Molluschi terrestri delle isole adiacenti alla Sicilia|journal=Atti della Reale Accademia di Scienze, Lettere e Belle Arti di Palermo|volume=3|issue=2|pages=1–33}} is a genus of small, air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Geomitridae.{{Cite journal|last=Chueca|first=Luis J.|last2=Gómez-Moliner|first2=Benjamín J.|last3=Madeira|first3=María José|last4=Pfenninger|first4=Markus|date=January 2018|title=Molecular phylogeny of Candidula (Geomitridae) land snails inferred from mitochondrial and nuclear markers reveals the polyphyly of the genus|journal=Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution|language=en|volume=118|pages=357–368|doi=10.1016/j.ympev.2017.10.022|pmid=29107619}}

The genus is distributed in the Italian Peninsula. Xerogyra species were within the genus Candidula until a molecular phylogeny revealed the polyphyly of Candidula and, the genus Xerogyra Monterosato, 1892 was recovered.