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Ellochotis infausta

Status not recordedbutterflies and moths

Ellochotis infausta 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 Ellochotis infausta

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 Ellochotis infausta 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.

Ellochotis infausta 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

Why a country list is not a range map

Is Ellochotis infausta 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 Ellochotis infausta classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumArthropoda
  3. classInsecta
  4. orderLepidoptera
  5. familyTineidae
  6. genusEllochotis
  7. SpeciesEllochotis infausta Meyrick, 1920

Catalogue of Life

Relatives of Ellochotis infausta

Other species in the same genus Ellochotis.

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Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

Where does Ellochotis infausta live?

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

What kind of animal is Ellochotis infausta?

Ellochotis infausta (Ellochotis infausta) 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). Ellochotis infausta (Ellochotis infausta). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/ellochotis-infausta

MLA

“Ellochotis infausta (Ellochotis infausta).” CreatureData, 2026, https://creaturedata.com/animals/ellochotis-infausta.

BibTeX
@misc{ellochotis_infausta_2026,
  title = {Ellochotis infausta (Ellochotis infausta)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/ellochotis-infausta},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-11}
}