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.
- Listed
- Not listed
The same countries as a list
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?
- kingdomAnimalia
- phylumArthropoda
- classInsecta
- orderLepidoptera
- familyTineidae
- genusCimitra
- SpeciesCimitra spinignatha (Gozmány, 1968)
Synonyms Scalidomia spinignatha
Relatives of Cimitra spinignatha
Other species in the same genus Cimitra.
CompareCimitra spinignatha vs Cimitra efformataCimitra spinignatha vs Cimitra estimataCimitra spinignatha vs Cimitra fetialisCimitra spinignatha vs Cimitra horridella
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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Oliveira, B.F., São-Pedro, V.A., Santos-Barrera, G., Penone, C. & Costa, G.C. (2017) AmphiBIO, a global database for amphibian ecological traits. Scientific Data 4: 170123. https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2017.123. Data: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.4644424.v5 - AVONET: morphological, ecological and geographical data for all birds · CC BY 4.0 · v7
Tobias, J.A. et al. (2022) AVONET: morphological, ecological and geographical data for all birds. Ecology Letters 25: 581–597. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13898. Data: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.16586228.v7 - Catalogue of Life eXtended Release · CC BY 4.0 · 2026-10-16 XR
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Wilman, H., Belmaker, J., Simpson, J., de la Rosa, C., Rivadeneira, M.M. & Jetz, W. (2014) EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95: 2027. https://doi.org/10.1890/13-1917.1. Data: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.3559887.v1 - Wikidata · CC0 1.0 · 2026-11-11
Wikidata contributors. Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org (data retrieved via the Wikidata Query Service). - Wikipedia (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 2026-11-11
Wikipedia contributors. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. https://en.wikipedia.org (text under CC BY-SA 4.0; each block names its article and revision).
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