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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