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Tawaya rutila

Status not recordedbutterflies and moths

Tawaya rutila is a species in the family Gelechiidae, order Lepidoptera. Source checklists list it for 1 country: Malaysia.

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Quick facts about Tawaya rutila

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 Tawaya rutila 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.

Tawaya rutila is listed for 1 country.

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

The same countries as a list

  1. Malaysia

Why a country list is not a range map

Is Tawaya rutila 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 Tawaya rutila classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumArthropoda
  3. classInsecta
  4. orderLepidoptera
  5. familyGelechiidae
  6. genusTawaya
  7. SpeciesTawaya rutila Ponomarenko, M. Omelko & N. Omelko, 2021

Catalogue of Life

Relatives of Tawaya rutila

Other species in the same genus Tawaya.

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Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

Where does Tawaya rutila live?

Catalogue of Life checklists list Tawaya rutila for 1 country: Malaysia. Checklist coverage is uneven, so the true range may be wider.

What kind of animal is Tawaya rutila?

Tawaya rutila (Tawaya rutila) 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). Tawaya rutila (Tawaya rutila). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/tawaya-rutila

MLA

“Tawaya rutila (Tawaya rutila).” CreatureData, 2026, https://creaturedata.com/animals/tawaya-rutila.

BibTeX
@misc{tawaya_rutila_2026,
  title = {Tawaya rutila (Tawaya rutila)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/tawaya-rutila},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-11}
}