Aroga websteri

Aroga websteri
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Gelechiidae
Genus:	Aroga
Species:	A. websteri
Binomial name
Aroga websteri Clarke, 1942

Aroga websteri is a moth of the family Gelechiidae. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from Washington.^[1][2]

The wingspan is 14–16 mm. The forewings are sordid white, heavily stuffed with greyish-fuscous and overlying greyish-fuscous scales. The extreme base and two or three short, ill-defined, oblique costal dashes are blackish fuscous. There is a blackish-fuscous longitudinal dash on the lower fold, nearly to the middle of the wing, with a few ochreous scales mixed. A shorter dash is found in the cell at the middle, followed by an ill-defined small spot of the same colour. The hindwings are light smoky fuscous.

Etymology[]

The species is named for Dr. R. L. Webster, former head of the Department of Zoology, Washington State College.^[3]

References[]

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