''Ancylis myrtillana'' is a moth of the family Tortricidae. It was described by Treitschke in 1830. It is found in most of Europe and across the

Palearctic The Palearctic or Palaearctic is the largest of the eight biogeographic realms of the Earth. It stretches across all of Eurasia north of the foothills of the Himalayas, and North Africa. The realm consists of several bioregions: the Euro-Sibe ...

.It has also been recorded in

North America North America is a continent in the Northern Hemisphere and almost entirely within the Western Hemisphere. It is bordered to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, to the southeast by South America and the Car ...

. The habitat consists of moorland. The wingspan is 12–16 mm. The forewings are ochreous or pale brownish, sometimes striated with whitish. The costa is posteriorly spotted with dark fuscous and there is a rather dark fuscous irregularly triangular dorsal blotch extending from base to beyond middle, the surrounding space sometimes wholly whitish. The central fascia is ochreous-brownish, with a wedge-shaped posterior projection upwards from below middle, marked with one or two black dashes in middle. The hindwings are grey. Julius von Kennel provides a full description. Adults are on wing from May to July in one generation per year. The larvae feed on ''

Vaccinium myrtillus ''Vaccinium myrtillus'' or European blueberry is a holarctic species of shrub with edible fruit of blue color, known by the common names bilberry, blaeberry, wimberry, and whortleberry. It is more precisely called common bilberry or blue whortle ...

'', '' Vaccinium vitis-idaea'' and '' Vaccinium uliginosum''. They feed from within a pod, created by spinning two leaves together.UKmoths
/ref> The species overwinters as a final instar larvae within a cocoon made in litter.

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Moths described in 1830 Enarmoniini Moths of Europe Moths of North America {{Olethreutinae-stub