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Mesophleps apentheta

Status not recordedbutterflies and moths

Mesophleps apentheta is a species in the family Gelechiidae, order Lepidoptera. Source checklists list it for 1 country: Australia.

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Quick facts about Mesophleps apentheta

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 Mesophleps apentheta 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.

Mesophleps apentheta is listed for 1 country.

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

The same countries as a list

  1. Australia

Why a country list is not a range map

Is Mesophleps apentheta 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 Mesophleps apentheta classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumArthropoda
  3. classInsecta
  4. orderLepidoptera
  5. familyGelechiidae
  6. genusMesophleps
  7. SpeciesMesophleps apentheta (Turner, 1919)

Synonyms Nothris apentheta

Catalogue of Life

Relatives of Mesophleps apentheta

Other species in the same genus Mesophleps.

Straw crest

Mesophleps silacella

GelechiidaeNo free photo yet

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Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

Where does Mesophleps apentheta live?

Catalogue of Life checklists list Mesophleps apentheta for 1 country: Australia. Checklist coverage is uneven, so the true range may be wider.

What kind of animal is Mesophleps apentheta?

Mesophleps apentheta (Mesophleps apentheta) 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). Mesophleps apentheta (Mesophleps apentheta). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/mesophleps-apentheta

MLA

“Mesophleps apentheta (Mesophleps apentheta).” CreatureData, 2026, https://creaturedata.com/animals/mesophleps-apentheta.

BibTeX
@misc{mesophleps_apentheta_2026,
  title = {Mesophleps apentheta (Mesophleps apentheta)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/mesophleps-apentheta},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-11}
}