''Ocrasa'' is a

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moths Moths are a group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies. They were previously classified as suborder Heterocera, but the group is paraphyletic with respect to butterflies (suborder Rhopalocera) a ...

belonging to the

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Pyralidae The Pyralidae, commonly called pyralid moths, snout moths or grass moths, are a family of Lepidoptera in the ditrysian superfamily Pyraloidea. In many (particularly older) classifications, the grass moths (Crambidae) are included in the Pyr ...

. The genus is mostly treated as a synonym of ''

Hypsopygia ''Hypsopygia'' is a genus of moths belonging to the family Pyralidae. Though fairly small, they are large among their relatives. It was described by Jacob Hübner in 1825. Taxonomy The genera '' Herculia'', '' Dolichomia'', ''Pseudasopia'', '' O ...

''. If considered valid, the genus includes many species which were formerly included in '' Herculia''.See references in Savela (2009) In addition, the proposed genus ''Orthopygia'', which some authors consider a separate (and sometimes

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) lineage is here merged with ''Ocrasa''. The latter two genera are also mostly merged with ''Hypsopygia'' however.

Selected species

* '' Ocrasa acerasta'' * '' Ocrasa albidalis'' Walker,

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/small> * '' 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

References

* (2009): Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and some other life forms &ndash
''Ocrasa''
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