Aroga flavicomella

Short description: Species of moth

Aroga flavicomella

Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Class:  | Insecta
Order:  | Lepidoptera
Family:  | Gelechiidae
Genus:  | Aroga
Species:  |

A. flavicomella

Binomial name
Aroga flavicomella

(Zeller, 1839)

Synonyms

* Gelechia flavicomella Zeller, 1839
* Bruand, 1859 Anacampsis flavicomella var. aureodorsella

Aroga flavicomella is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in most of Europe, except Ireland, Great Britain, the Benelux, Denmark , Fennoscandia, the Baltic region, Portugal and the western and southern part of the Balkan Peninsula.[1] It has also been recorded from Turkey, the Middle East, Mongolia, Korea and Central Asia,[2] including Kyrgyzstan.[3]

Leaves of sloe fastened together and eaten by larva

Larva

The wingspan is 15–17 mm.[4] Adults are on wing from May to June.

The larvae feed on Prunus spinosa,[5] Prunus domestica and Prunus cerasus.[6] They feed from within tied together leaves. Larvae can be found from fall to April.

## References

1. ↑ Fauna Europaea
2. ↑ Junnilainen, J. et al. 2010: The gelechiid fauna of the southern Ural Mountains, part II: list of recorded species with taxonomic notes (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae). Zootaxa, 2367: 1–68. Preview
3. ↑ Aroga flavicomella - BOLD Systems - Taxonomy Browser
4. ↑ Aroga flavicomella - Ochrana přírody a krajiny v Hlavním městě Praze
5. ↑ HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants
6. ↑ Aroga at funet

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