Ancylosis Zeller, 1839

Gulzar, Abdukirim, You, Wanxue, Ren, Yingdang & Li, Houhun, 2025, The genus Ancylosis Zeller, 1839 (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae: Phycitinae) from Ningxia Shapotou Nature Reserves of China, Zootaxa 5719 (1), pp. 73-90 : 75

Genus Ancylosis Zeller, 1839

Ancylosis Zeller, 1839: 178 . Type species: Pyralis dilutella Treitschke, 1832 [= Phycis cinnamomella Duponchel, 1836 ] subsequent designation by Hampson, 1901, in Ragonot, in Romanoff: 212 (but cited as cinnamomella Zeller , an incorrect authorship).

More citations see Bidzilya et al. (2019: 439).

Diagnosis. Species of Ancylosis are characterized mostly by the porrect, weakly or strongly up-curved labial palpus; the narrowly elongate forewing with ground color yellow to dark yellowish-brown in general, M 2 and M 3 veins merged, stalked or separated; in the male genitalia by the sub-triangular uncus, the conical or distally hooked gnathos, the narrowly elongate valva and the slender aedeagus without cornuti; in the female genitalia by the corpus bursae, or sometimes ductus bursae full of numerous thorns with a rounded base.

Detailed morphological characters were described and discussed by Roesler (1970, 1973), Sinev (1986), Leraut (2014) and Bidzilya et al. (2019).

Host plants. Chenopodiaceae (Falkovitsh 1969a, b; Robinson et al. 2010–2019), Crassulaceae , Plantaginaceae , Plumbaginaceae , Asteraceae and Fabaceae (Glaser 1960: 157; Sinev 1986: 326; Bidzilya et al. 2019).

Distribution. Worldwide. Most species are distributed in the arid areas of the Palaearctic Region ( Bidzilya et al. 2019).