Ancylis unguicella is a moth belonging to the family Tortricidae.

The species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his landmark 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae.

The ground colour of the forewings is whitish, sprinkled or sometimes suffused with light fuscous and more or less striated with brown.

The edge of the basal patch is obliquely rounded and it is less marked towards the costa.

The narrow central fascia has a short posterior median projection, and a subapical transverse streak triangularly dilated towards the termen.