Ancylis uncella (Denis & Schiffermuller, 1775)

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 : 24

Ancylis uncella ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)

( Figs. 6, 12)

Tinea uncella Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775: 136 . TL: Austria (Vienna).

Diagnosis. This species can be distinguished from other species of Ancylis by the gray dorsal patch of the forewing.

Re­description. Adult: Wingspan 19 mm in male. Ground color of forewing dark reddish brown mixed with brown, somewhat darker at apex, with gray dorsal patch of same color as speculum, without pretornal spot. Hindwing bright reddish brown, slightly darker outwardly.

Male genitalia ( Fig. 12): Uncus relatively short, bifurcate. Socii broad, rounded, with long hairs. Valva well sclerotized, slightly curved inwardly, with dense long hairs along the ventral margin; sacculus strongly sclerotized with a small, ventral, triangular projection; ventral margin of valva concave immediately beyond termination of sacculus, cucullus nearly paralell­sided, narrowed towards rounded apex. Aedeagus fairly long, gradually narrowed from coecum to apex, vesica with a bundle of about 90 cornuti.

Material examined: [Heilongjiang] 2 examples (abdomens lacking), Liangshui, 27 June 1996 (SC Yan). [Neimenggu] 6♂, Alihe, Mid­June 1995 (SC Yan), Genitalia slide NEFU ENT­0210 , 0212 .

Distribution: China (new record); Korea; Russia; Asia Minor; Iran; Europe; America. This species is Transpalaearctic in distribution; it is associated with various types of forest and peatlands in the Primorye territory and Amur region ( Kuznetsov 1973).

Host plants. Calluna sp. and Erica sp. (Ericaceae) (Klimesch, 1961), Betula L. ( Betulaceae ) in Europe (Razowski 1987).