Aroga flavicomella explained

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]

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.

Notes and References

https://web.archive.org/web/20150610214617/http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=437335 Fauna Europaea
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
http://www.boldsystems.org/views/taxbrowser.php?taxid=363376 Aroga flavicomella - BOLD Systems - Taxonomy Browser
http://www.wmap.cz/opk/mot/motyl/mot671.htm Aroga flavicomella - Ochrana přírody a krajiny v Hlavním městě Praze
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/research/projects/hostplants/search/detail.dsml?PK_MainID=9892&PSpecies=spinosa&PSpeciesqtype=starts+with&PGenus=prunus&PFamilyqtype=starts+with&sort=Family&Familyqtype=starts+with&Speciesqtype=starts+with&Genusqtype=starts+with&PGenusqtype=starts+with&beginIndex=9&listPageURL=list%2edsml%3fPSpecies%3dspinosa%26PSpeciesqtype%3dstarts%2bwith%26PGenus%3dprunus%26PFamilyqtype%3dstarts%2bwith%26sort%3dFamily%26Familyqtype%3dstarts%2bwith%26Speciesqtype%3dstarts%2bwith%26Genusqtype%3dstarts%2bwith%26PGenusqtype%3dstarts%2bwith&searchPageURL=index%2edsml%3fPSpeciesqtype%3dstarts%2bwith%26PSpecies%3dspinosa%26PGenus%3dprunus%26PFamilyqtype%3dstarts%2bwith%26sort%3dFamily%26Familyqtype%3dstarts%2bwith%26Speciesqtype%3dstarts%2bwith%26Genusqtype%3dstarts%2bwith%26PGenusqtype%3dstarts%2bwith HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants
http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/gelechioidea/gelechiidae/gelechiinae/aroga/ Aroga at funet