Ancylis Hübner, 1825

Byun, Bong-Kyu & Yan, Shanchun, 2005, Description of a new species, records of five previously unrecorded species, and rediscovery of a lost species in the genus Ancylis Hübner (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) from China, Zootaxa 1103 (1103), pp. 17-26 : 18

Genus Ancylis Hübner, 1825

Ancylis Hübner, 1825: 376 . Type­species: Tortrix harpana Hübner, [1799] TL : Europe.

Members of the genus Ancylis have a narrow forewing with an elongate or falcate apex, often with a moderately large semicircular blotch or patch bordering the basal half of the dorsal margin. In the hindwing the base of M 2 is close to the base of the stalk of M 3 and Cu 1, and M 3 and Cu 1 are connate, stalked, or fused.

Male genitalia are characterized by a sclerotized lamelliform process on the medial margin of the tegumen near its junction with the vinculum; a well developed uncus, longitudinally bifurcate or reduced in some species; and broad, pendant socii. Female genitalia usually have a pair of elongate horn­shaped signa with expanded bases. The geographic distribution is the same as that of the tribe ( Enarmoniini ), which is worldwide. Larvae live in tubes or clumps of wrapped leaves and sometimes feed on fruit of the host plant.