Ancylosis costistrigella

Ancylosis costistrigella is a species of snout moth in the genus Ancylosis. It was described by Ragonot, in 1890, and is known from the Canary Islands.,[2] Algeria,[1] Tunisia, Morocco, Israel, Iran, Afghanistan, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates and Sudan.[3]

Ancylosis costistrigella
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pyralidae
Genus: Ancylosis
Species:
A. costistrigella
Binomial name
Ancylosis costistrigella
(Ragonot, 1890)[1]
Synonyms
  • Heterographis costistrigella Ragonot, 1890

The larvae feed on Salvia aegyptiaca.

References
  1. "World Pyraloidea Database". Globiz.pyraloidea.org. Retrieved 2011-09-29.
  2. Fauna Europaea
  3. Afro Moths


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