Aroga compositella

Aroga compositella
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Gelechiidae
Genus:	Aroga
Species:	A. compositella
Binomial name
Aroga compositella (Walker, 1864)
Synonyms
Oecophora compositella Walker, 1864 Gelechia coloradensis Busck, 1903 Gelechia speculifera Meyrick, 1931

Aroga compositella, the six-spotted aroga moth, is a moth of the Gelechiidae family. It is found in the United States, where it has been recorded from Alabama, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Mississippi, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Wisconsin.^[1][2]

The wingspan is 15-16 mm. The forewings are deep purplish black with five pure white markings, namely, an outwardly oblique costal white streak near the base, reaching the fold. An elliptical white spot is found on the middle of the wing and there is an angulate white costal spot at the beginning of the cilia, as well as an opposite small dorsal white spot and a small white dot on the fold, below and forward of the central spot. Just before the apex a few single white scales are found. The hindwings are dark fuscous.^[3]

References

1. Aroga at funet
2. mothphotographersgroup
3. Busck, A., 1903. A revision of the American moths of the family Gelechiidae, with descriptions of new species. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 25: 857