Ancylosis rufifasciella (Hampson, 1901) (previously known as Hypogryphia rufifasciella) PHYCITINAE,   PYRALIDAE,   PYRALOIDEA

Don Herbison-Evans (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley

(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group, Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, University of Guelph)

The adult moths of this species have forewings that are dark brown with reddish-brown veins and a few dark spots. The hindwings are off-white darkening toard the wing-tips. The moths have a wingspan of about 2.5 cms.

(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group, Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, University of Guelph)

The species has been found in Australia in :

Queensland.

drawing by George Francis Hampson, listed as Hypogryphia rufifasciella,
in Émile Louis Ragonot: Monographie des Phycitinae et des Galleriinae,
in Nicholas Mikhailovitch Romanoff: Mémoires sur les lépidoptères,
Paris : Imprimerie de Générale Lahure, Volume VIII, Plate XLVIII, fig. 26,
image courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library, digitized by Ernst Mayr Library, Harvard University.

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Further reading :

George Francis Hampson,
in Émile Louis Ragonot: Monographie des Phycitinae et des Galleriinae,
in Nicholas Mikhailovitch Romanoff: Mémoires sur les lépidoptères,
Paris : Imprimerie de Générale Lahure, Volume 8, p. 193, No. 280, and also Plate 48, fig. 26.

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(written 8 February 2022)