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Clepsigenes dissota

Status not recordedbutterflies and moths

Clepsigenes dissota is a species in the family Gelechiidae, order Lepidoptera. Source checklists list it for 1 country: Papua New Guinea.

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Quick facts about Clepsigenes dissota

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 Clepsigenes dissota 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.

Clepsigenes dissota is listed for 1 country.

Papua New Guinea
  • Listed
  • Not listed
small islands are not drawn at this scale

The same countries as a list

  1. Papua New Guinea

Is Clepsigenes dissota 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 Clepsigenes dissota classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumArthropoda
  3. classInsecta
  4. orderLepidoptera
  5. familyGelechiidae
  6. genusClepsigenes
  7. SpeciesClepsigenes dissota Meyrick, 1930

Synonyms Menecratistis sciaula

Catalogue of Life

Relatives of Clepsigenes dissota

Other species in the same family Gelechiidae.

Potato moth

Phthorimaea operculella

GelechiidaeNo free photo yet

Pink bollworm

Pectinophora gossypiella

GelechiidaeNo free photo yet

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Common questions

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Where does Clepsigenes dissota live?

Catalogue of Life checklists list Clepsigenes dissota for 1 country: Papua New Guinea. Checklist coverage is uneven, so the true range may be wider.

What kind of animal is Clepsigenes dissota?

Clepsigenes dissota (Clepsigenes dissota) belongs to the family Gelechiidae 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). Clepsigenes dissota (Clepsigenes dissota). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/clepsigenes-dissota

MLA

“Clepsigenes dissota (Clepsigenes dissota).” CreatureData, 2026, https://creaturedata.com/animals/clepsigenes-dissota.

BibTeX
@misc{clepsigenes_dissota_2026,
  title = {Clepsigenes dissota (Clepsigenes dissota)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/clepsigenes-dissota},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-11}
}