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.^[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.

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^[verification needed] (but see text) Parasopia Möschler, 1890

Selected species

• Ocrasa acerasta
• Ocrasa albidalis Walker, [1866]
• Ocrasa chytriodes (Turner, 1911)
• Ocrasa decoloralis (Lederer, 1863)
• Ocrasa fulvocilialis – sometimes still in Herculia
• Ocrasa glaucinalis – sometimes in Orthopygia
• Ocrasa nannodes – sometimes in Orthopygia
• Ocrasa nostralis (Guenée, 1854)
• Ocrasa placens – sometimes in Orthopygia
• Ocrasa repetita (Butler, 1887)
• Ocrasa tripartialis (Herrich-Schäffer, 1871)

Footnotes

1. See references in Savela (2009)

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.