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Cimitra spinignatha

Status not recordedbutterflies and moths

Cimitra spinignatha is a species in the family Tineidae, order Lepidoptera. Source checklists list it for 1 country: South Africa.

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Quick facts about Cimitra spinignatha

Weight
Not recorded
Length
Not recorded
Lifespan
Not recorded
Main food
Not recorded
Habitat
Not recorded
Young per litter or clutch
Not recorded
Conservation status
Not recorded
Countries on record
1 countrysrc for Countries on record

Where does Cimitra spinignatha live?

Countries where Catalogue of Life checklists list the species. Many checklists carry no country data, so the list is often incomplete. It is not a range map.

Cimitra spinignatha is listed for 1 country.

South Africa
  • Listed
  • Not listed
small islands are not drawn at this scale

The same countries as a list

  1. South Africa

Is Cimitra spinignatha endangered?

No conservation assessment is recorded for this species in our sources. That is not the same as being safe: it has not been matched to an assessment.

How is Cimitra spinignatha classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumArthropoda
  3. classInsecta
  4. orderLepidoptera
  5. familyTineidae
  6. genusCimitra
  7. SpeciesCimitra spinignatha (Gozmány, 1968)

Synonyms Scalidomia spinignatha

Catalogue of Life

Relatives of Cimitra spinignatha

Other species in the same genus Cimitra.

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Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

Where does Cimitra spinignatha live?

Catalogue of Life checklists list Cimitra spinignatha for 1 country: South Africa. Checklist coverage is uneven, so the true range may be wider.

What kind of animal is Cimitra spinignatha?

Cimitra spinignatha (Cimitra spinignatha) belongs to the family Tineidae in the order Lepidoptera.

Sources and how to cite this page

Data as of 2026-11-11. How this page is put together.

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APA

CreatureData. (2026). Cimitra spinignatha (Cimitra spinignatha). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/cimitra-spinignatha

MLA

“Cimitra spinignatha (Cimitra spinignatha).” CreatureData, 2026, https://creaturedata.com/animals/cimitra-spinignatha.

BibTeX
@misc{cimitra_spinignatha_2026,
  title = {Cimitra spinignatha (Cimitra spinignatha)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/cimitra-spinignatha},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-11}
}