Ancylosis muliebris
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 muliebris

description: Ancylosis muliebris (Meyrick, 1937)
Figs 4–6, 10, 11, 22, 23
Trissonca muliebris Meyrick, 1937 — Exotic Microlepidoptera: 70. TL: Mosul, Iraq.
Material examined. Iran: 2 ♂, 1 ♀, 30 km W von Teheran, 2.vi.1963 (Kasy & Vartian) (gen. slide 309/ 19♂, 310/ 19♀, O. Bidzilya) (NHMW); 1 ♂, Iran, Belutschistan, Jranshar, 800 m, 18, 28.iii.1964 (Richter) (gen. slide 40/20, O. Bidzilya) (SMNK). Pakistan: 1 ♂, 2 ♀, 150 km SW von Quetta, 900 m, 13.v.1965 (Kasy & Vartian) (gen. slide 360/ 19♀, 1/ 20♂, 2/ 20♀, O. Bidzilya) (NHMW, SMNK).
Diagnosis. Ancylosis muliebris is a comparatively small light brown species with white costal strip and weak light oblique postmedial line on about 5/6 of the forewing (Figs 4–6). This line is a character for separating A. muliebris from several similar species with absent postmedial line (A. deserticola, A. pallida (Staudinger, 1870), A. citrinella (Ragonot, 1887) and others). However, in some cases the light line in A. muliebris can be reduced. The male genitalia of the species (Figs 22, 23) are characterized by elongated uncus, long narrow valva with crest-shaped clasper and long aedeagus with slender distal half. Anterior edge of sternum VIII is trapezoidal, culcita as a pair of scale tufts on the sides. A strong seta is present in each scale tuft of culcita. The male genitalia of A. pallida are very similar except for a smaller clasper, slightly broader aedeagus and much broader basal sclerite of eighth sternum (Figs 19–21). The female genitalia are characterized by a narrow long corpus bursae and large signum in combination with anteriorly projecting sternum VIII (Figs 10, 11). They are extremely similar to those of A. deserticola, A. pallida and A. leucocephala, though anterior 1/3 of corpus bursae is stronger swollen and distinctly restricted in the latter species, but less swollen and weaker restricted in A. deserticola and A. pallida. Additionally, both male and female genitalia of A. pallida are considerably larger.
Remarks. Trissonca muliebris was described from a single female collected in Mosul (Iraq). We studied a series of specimens from Iran kept in SMNK and labelled as “ muliebris ” by Roesler and Amsel. These specimens match externally the original description and we follow Roesler and Amsel considering them conspecific with type of A. muliebris though the latter remains unexamined. The male genitalia of A. muliebris were described and illustrated by Amsel (1954: 281, pl. 9, figs 91, 92) based on a specimen from Teheran, whereas the female genitalia were illustrated by Roesler (1973: pl. 134, fig. 178) based on material from Saudi Arabia. Several males and females of A. muliebris from Iran and Pakistan studied by us show no differences in the genitalia from figures by Amsel and Roesler mentioned above. However, the male genitalia of A. muliebris differ considerably from illustration of that in Roesler (1973: pl. 70, fig. 178) which is based on the holotype of Ancylosis macedonica (Schawerda, 1937). Moreover, the latter differ from A. muliebris externally having uniformly dark brown forewing without white costal streak. Hence, we remove A. macedonica from synonymy with A. muliebris (see below under the unit for A. macedonica).
Distribution. Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia (Amsel 1954; Roesler 1973).
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 453-454, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4822.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4457997