Ancylosis monella ( Roesler, 1973 )

Yepishin, Viktor, Bidzilya, Oleksiy, Budashkin, Yuriy, Zhakov, Oleksandr, Mushynskyi, Vadym & Novytskyi, Sergiy, 2020, New records of little known pyraloid moths (Lepidoptera: Pyraloidea) from Ukraine, Zootaxa 4808 (1), pp. 101-120 : 108-109

Ancylosis monella ( Roesler, 1973)

( Figs 23–26 )

Material examined: 1♂, Luhansk reg., Stanychno-Luhanske, manor of Luhansk Natural Reserve, at light, 1.viii.1997 (O. Pak), genitalia prep.: O. Pak; slide: O. Bidzilya prep. no. 188 / 19♂ ( ZMKU). Afghanistan: Paratype

of monella : ♂, “N.— AFGHANISTAN, Polichomri 700 m, 5.8.1956, H. G. Amsel leg.” | “ Staudingeria , monella, U. Roesler / Paratypus ” | “Gemalt von, Dr. F. Gregor, für Micr. Pal.” | “Para-, type” | “Slide, № 342.20 ♂, V. Yepishin ” ( SMNK) .

Remarks. Adults of Ancylosis monella are similar to A. samaritanella ( Zeller, 1867) and A. pyrethrella ( Herrich-Schäffer, 1860) , but male genitalia have a number of distinguishing features, the main one of which is the characteristic rounded lobes of the tegumen at base of the gnatos (the arrows on Figs 24, 26 ). Despite the male genitalia of the specimen from Luhansk region are partially destroyed, they correspond to those of paratype by the shape of uncus, valva, juxta and aedeagus.

Distribution. Cyprus ( Arenberger 1994); Iran, Afghanistan ( Roesler 1973); Turkmenistan, Mongolia ( Ivinskis 1990); Ukraine: Luhansk region ( Pak 2005).

Note. Ancylosis monella was recorded as new for Ukraine and Europe by Pak (2005). Later the species was removed from the list of Pyralidae of Ukraine ( Bidzilya et al. 2019) as this rather surprising record was not documented by illustrations and the specimen was not available for our study due to objective reasons. Recently, however, O. Pak kindly provided this specimen ( Figs 25, 26 ) for us to examine. Its detailed study and comparison with paratype of Staudingeria monella Roesler, 1973 ( Figs 23, 24 ) confirm the correct identification of the specimen from Luhansk as A. monella .

Figures

FIGURES 23–26. Ancylosis monella. 23, 25. Adult. 24, 26. Male genitalia. 23, 24. ♂, Afghanistan, prep. no. 342.20, paratype. 25, 26. ♂, Luhansk reg., prep. no. 188/19.