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Pyralidae : Pyralinae

Hypsopygia (ocrasa ) glaucinalis

HYPSOPYGIA (ocrasa ) glaucinalis (Linnaeus, 1758)
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Description
Vernacular Name: Double-striped Tabby
Wingspan: 23-30mm
Worldwide Distribution: Europe : North Africa : Asia Minor : Russia : Japan : Sakhalin : Kuril Islands : northern China : Korean Peninsula
UK Distribution: Relatively common locally in the southern half of England : Recently recorded new to Scotland and the Isle of Man : Occasional migrant to the south of England.
UK Conservation Status -
  • Common = >300 10Km Squares
European Conservation -
  • Least Concern
Original Species Name -
  • Phalaena glaucinalis Linnaeus 1758
Type Species - Hypsopygia
  • Phalaena costalis Fabricius, 1775
Type Locality -
  • Europe
Flight Period: June-November-Univoltine-single generation : Sometimes a second partial brood-Bivoltine- is possible within its southerly range.
Habitat: Gardens : Farmland : Woodland : Scrubby grassland
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  • None
Larva: The larva feed on decaying vegetable matter such as hay,grass mowings and dry leaves, occasionally being found in unusual circumstances such as birds nests,straw,thatching and discarded paper,protected in a a silken gallery.
Pupa: Pupates in a cocoon
Overwinters as: Ovum
Observations: A moth with grey forewings with two cross-lines that are yelowish at the costa and turn white across the forewing and hindwing. There is a narrow costal streak between these cross-lines which are the same grey as the forewing with intermittent dashes of orangy yellow.

The moth rests in typical pyralid fashion with upturned abdomen, as seen in photos 3.

The moth comes to light and also sugar.
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Animalia
Eumetozoa
Arthropoda
Hexapoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Pyraloidea
Pyralidae
Pyralinae
Pyralini
HYPSOPYGIA Hübner, [1825]
Ocrasa Walker,1866
Hypsopygia (ocrasa ) glaucinalis (Linnaeus, 1758)
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Phalaena costalis Fabricius, 1775
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PHALAENA glaucinalis (Linnaeus 1758)
= Orthopygia glaucinalis Linnaeus 1758
= Hypsopygia glaucinalis Linnaeus, 1758
= Pyralis nitidalis Fabricius, 1794
= Pyralis yokohamae Butler, 1879
= Herculia nigralis Evers, 1958
= Ocrasa glaucinalis
= Herculia glaucinalis
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HYPSOPYGIA Hübner 1825
= Orthopygia Ragonot 1890= Herculia Walker 1859
= Orthopygia Ragonot 1890
= Ocrasa Leraut 2003
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Syst. Nat. (Edn 10) 1 : Title page : p.533 - n.227
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Europe