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Ocrasa

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. In addition, the proposed genus Orthopygia, which some authors consider a separate lineage is here merged with Ocrasa. The latter two genera are also mostly merged with Hypsopygia however.

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Ocrasa
Adult specimen of Ocrasa glaucinalis, sometimes separated in Orthopygia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pyralidae
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.

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Footnotes

Footnotes

  1. See references in Savela (2009)
References

References

Media related to Ocrasa at Wikimedia Commons

  • Savela, Markku (2009): Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and some other life forms – Ocrasa. Version of 2009-APR-08. Retrieved 2010-APR-12.