''Ancylosis pallida'' 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 ...

in the genus ''

Ancylosis ''Ancylosis'' is a genus of snout moths. It was described by Philipp Christoph Zeller in 1839, and is known from South Africa, Uzbekistan, Spain, Turkmenistan, Lebanon, Algeria, Tunisia, Russia, Israel, Palestine, Greece, Australia, Seychelles ...

''. It was described by Staudinger, in 1870, and is known from

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and

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. The

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is 23–24 mm.

References

Moths described in 1870

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Moths of Europe {{Ancylosis-stub