Ancylosis leucocephala
Creators: name: Bidzilya, Oleksiy
name: Budashkin, Yuriy
name: Slamka, František
name: Tsvetkov, Eugene
name: Yepishin, Viktor
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Pyralidae
Ancylosis
Ancylosis leucocephala

description: Ancylosis leucocephala (Staudinger, 1879)
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Myelois leucocephala Staudinger, 1879 — Stettiner entomologische Zeitung, 40: 326. TL: Naryn [Narün], Atyrau region, W Kazakhstan.
Staudingeria psammicola Roesler, 1970 — Reichenbachia, 13 (7): 100–101. TL: “ 130 km OSO von Somon Bajanleg”, [Övörkhangai aimak], Mongolia. Syn. nov.
Type material examined. Holotype of psammicola: ♂, “ MONGOLIA: Uburchangaj, aimak, 130 km OSO von, Somon Bajanleg, 1150 m, Exp. Dr. Z. Kaszab, 1967” | “Nr. 882, 3.VII.1967 ” | “Holo-type” | “ Staudingeria, psammicola, U. Roesler / Holotypus ”, (gen. slide 286/19, O. Bidzilya) (NHMB). Paratypes: 1 ♀, “ MONGOLIA: Uburchangaj, aimak, 130 km OSO von, Somon Bajanleg, 1150 m, Exp. Dr. Z. Kaszab, 1967” | “Nr. 882, 3.VII.1967 ” | “Gamalt von, Dr. F. Gregor, für Micr. Pal.” | “Allo-, Holo-, type” | “ Staudingeria, psammicola, U. Roesler / Allotypus ”, (gen. slide 155/19, O. Bidzilya) (SMNK); 1 ♂, “ MONGOLIA: Südgobi aimak, 100 km W v. Grenzposten, Ovot Chuural, 1250 m, Exp. Dr. Z. KASZAB, 1967” | “Nr. 834,22. VI.1967 ” | “Para-, type” | “ Staudingeria, psammicola, U. Roesler / Paratypus ”, (gen. slide 154/19, O. Bidzilya) (SMNK).
Additional material examined. Russia: 4 ♂, 3 ♀, Astrakhan reg., Dosang env., 20–23.vi.2016; 6 ♂, 4 ♀, same data but 26–28.v.2016 (ET). Kazakhstan: 1 ♀, Mangistau reg., 43 SE of Shetpe, sands, 4.v.2019; 1 ♂, Mangistau reg., env. of vill. Beineu, 21.v.2016; 1 ♀, Atyrau reg., Akkergeshen plateau, 20.vi.2017 (ET). Uzbekistan: 1 ♀, Zhamansai, Kyzylkum, 20.viii.1970 (Falkovitsh); 1 ♀, Ajakguzhumdy, Dzhingildy 40 km E, 28.v.1965 (Pastukhov); 1 ♀, Aznek, 70 km S Tamdy Bulak, 1.v.1965 (Falkovitsh). Turkmenistan: 1 ♂, Ispas, 70 km NW Tchardzhou, 2.vi.1965 (Falkovitsh). China: 1 ♂, Kuldja, coll. Wocke (all ZIN).
Remarks. Staudingeria psammicola was described from five males and three females collected in Uburchangai aimak and South Gobi aimak in Mongolia. Roesler (1970: 101) compared A. psammicola with A. deserticola (Staudinger, 1870) but not with A. leucocephala (Staudinger, 1879). Our study of the holotype and two paratypes (male and female) of A. psammicola justified their conspecificity with A. leucocephala. The type material of the latter and the differences between A. leucocephala and A. deserticola were recently discussed (Bidzilya et al. 2019). Hence, the following synonymy is proposed: Ancylosis psammicola (Roesler, 1970) syn. nov. of Ancylosis leucocephala (Staudinger, 1879).
Distribution. Russia (Lower Volga and S Urals), Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Mongolia, W China (Roesler 1973; Sinev et al. 2019). The records from Romania (Roesler 1973; Speidel 1996; Plant & Jakšić 2018) should most likely be referred either to A. deserticola or to A. larissae Bidzilya, Budashkin & Yepishin, 2019.
description: Published as part of Bidzilya, Oleksiy, Budashkin, Yuriy, Slamka, František, Tsvetkov, Eugene & Yepishin, Viktor, 2020, Notes on taxonomy and distribution of some Palaearctic Ancylosis Zeller, 1839 (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae: Phycitinae), pp. 451-481 in Zootaxa 4822 (4) on pages 452-453, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4822.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4457997