Ocrasa

Ocrasa
Adult specimen of Ocrasa glaucinalis, sometimes separated in Orthopygia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pyralidae
Subfamily: Pyralinae
Tribe: Pyralini
Genus: Ocrasa
Walker, [1866]
Synonyms

Orthopygia Ragonot, 1891 (but see text)
Parasopia Möschler, 1890

Ocrasa is a genus of moths belonging to the family Pyralidae. The genus is mostly treated as a synonym of Hypsopygia. If considered valid, the genus includes many species which were formerly included in Herculia.[1] In addition, the proposed genus Orthopygia, which some authors consider a separate (and sometimes monotypic) lineage is here merged with Ocrasa. The latter two genera are also mostly merged with Hypsopygia however.

Selected species

Footnotes

  1. ↑ See references in Savela (2009)

References

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