Ancylodes pallens

Ancylodes pallens is a species of snout moth in the genus Ancylodes. It was described by Émile Louis Ragonot in 1887 and is known from Iran, Iraq, Spain,^[1] Croatia, Greece, Russia,^[2] Kazakhstan^[3] and North Africa. It is a very rare immigrant to southern Great Britain.

Ancylodes pallens
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Pyralidae
Genus:	Ancylodes
Species:	A. pallens
Binomial name
Ancylodes pallens Ragonot, 1887[1]
Synonyms
Ancylodes pallens f. fuscella Amsel, 1958 Myelois banghaasiella Caradja, 1916

The wingspan is 18–20 mm.^[4]