Ocrasa glaucinalis

Ocrasa glaucinalis
Ocrasa glaucinalis
Adult in Dresden (Saxony, Germany)
Mounted adult
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pyralidae
Genus: Ocrasa
Species: O. glaucinalis
Binomial name
Ocrasa glaucinalis
(Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms

Herculia glaucinalis (Linnaeus, 1758)
Orthopygia glaucinalis (Linnaeus, 1758) (but see text)

Ocrasa glaucinalis is a moth of the family Pyralidae. It is sometimes[1] placed in the genus Orthopygia either alone or with a few other species. Being the type species of Orthopygia, as soon as O. glaucinalis is placed in Ocrasa (as is done here) "Orthopygia" is abolished.

It is native to the European continent. The wingspan is 23–31 mm. The adults fly from June to October in the temperate parts of its range (such as Belgium and The Netherlands).

The caterpillars feed on decaying plants and dry leaves. They have been found in some fairly unusual locations, such as Buteo nests, straw and thatching, and discarded paper.[2]

Footnotes

  1. ^ See references in Savela (2005)
  2. ^ Grabe (1942)

References

Media related to Ocrasa glaucinalis at Wikimedia Commons

  • Grabe, Albert (1942): Eigenartige Geschmacksrichtungen bei Kleinschmetterlingsraupen ["Strange tastes among micromoth caterpillars"]. Zeitschrift des Wiener Entomologen-Vereins 27: 105-109 [in German]. PDF fulltext
  • Savela, Markku (2005): Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and some other life forms – Orthopygia. Version of 2005-SEP-08. Retrieved 2010-APR-12.

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