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Aroga epigaeella

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Gelechiidae

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Aroga

Similar
  
Chionodes, Dichomeris, Gelechiidae

Aroga epigaeella is a moth of the Gelechiidae family. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from Georgia, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Texas.

Adults are dark, purple-brown, with a white costal spot before the apex, and an opposite dorsal one on the forewings. Before these spots, the wing is flecked with a few minute white spots, the two largest of which are on the fold, and there is another at the end of the cell. The costal white spot shows through the wing. The hindwings are fuscous. Adults have been recorded on wing from April to September.

The larvae feed on Epigaea repens .

References

Aroga epigaeella Wikipedia