Ancylis mitterbacheriana is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in most of Europe, except the Iberian Peninsula, most of the Balkan Peninsula and Ukraine.

Ancylis mitterbacheriana
Ancylis mitterbacheriana, Trawscoed, North Wales
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Tortricidae
Genus:	Ancylis
Species:	A. mitterbacheriana
Binomial name
Ancylis mitterbacheriana (Denis & Schiffermuller, 1775)[1][2]
Synonyms
Tortrix mitterbacheriana Denis & Schiffermuller, 1775 Pyralis mitterbachiana Fabricius, 1794 Grapholitha mitterbarchiana Duponchel, in Godart, 1834 Tortrix mitterpacheriana Frolich, 1828 Grapholitha mitterpachiana Treitschke, 1830 Tortrix subuncana Haworth, [1811]

The wingspan is about 13–17 mm.[3] The forewings are ferruginous. The costa is strigulated with black and posteriorly with white. There is a subquadrate dark ferruginous-brown dorsal blotch reaching from the base to the middle, posteriorly whitish-edged and a thick very oblique deep ferruginous streak from middle of costa, sometimes reaching termen beneath apex. The hindwings are rather dark grey. The larva is dull green; head and plate of 2 yellow -brownish, blackish-marked[4] Julius von Kennel provides a full description.[5]

Adults are on wing from May to June.[6]

The larvae feed on Quercus, Malus and Fagus species.

References

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