Pyralidae : Pyralinae
Hypsopygia (ocrasa ) glaucinalis
HYPSOPYGIA (ocrasa ) glaucinalis (Linnaeus, 1758)
Hypsopygia (ocrasa ) glaucinalis
HYPSOPYGIA (ocrasa ) glaucinalis (Linnaeus, 1758)
Life Cycle Guide-Imago Only
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 -
Habitat: Gardens : Farmland : Woodland : Scrubby grassland
Similar Species -
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.
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
- Least Concern
- Phalaena glaucinalis Linnaeus 1758
- Phalaena costalis Fabricius, 1775
- Europe
Habitat: Gardens : Farmland : Woodland : Scrubby grassland
Similar Species -
- None
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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Taxonomy
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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) - Phalaena costalis Fabricius, 1775 - 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 - HYPSOPYGIA Hübner 1825 = Orthopygia Ragonot 1890= Herculia Walker 1859 = Orthopygia Ragonot 1890 = Ocrasa Leraut 2003 - Syst. Nat. (Edn 10) 1 : Title page : p.533 - n.227 - Europe |