''Ancylosis harmoniella'' is a species of
snout moth
The Pyralidae, commonly called pyralid moths, snout moths or grass moths, are a family (biology), family of Lepidoptera in the ditrysian Taxonomic rank, superfamily Pyraloidea. In many (particularly older) classifications, the grass moths (Cramb ...
. It was described by
Émile Louis Ragonot
Émile Louis Ragonot (12 October 1843 – 13 October 1895) was a French entomologist. In 1885, he became president of the ''Société entomologique de France''.
He named 301 new genera of butterflies and moths, mostly Pyralidae, pyralid moths.
...
in 1887.
[), the ]Canary Islands
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,Malta
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, southern France[), the Middle East (Turkey, Syria, the ]Palestinian Territories
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, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Iran[), Afghanistan, and ]Transcaucasia
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[ (Azerbaijan][).
The ]wingspan
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is about .[
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References
harmoniella
Snout moths of Africa
Moths of Asia
Moths of Europe
Moths described in 1887
Taxa named by Émile Louis Ragonot
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