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Tinea caerula

Status not recordedbutterflies and moths

Tinea caerula is a species in the family Tineidae, order Lepidoptera. Source checklists list it for 1 country: Peru.

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Quick facts about Tinea caerula

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 Tinea caerula 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.

Tinea caerula is listed for 1 country.

Peru
  • Listed
  • Not listed
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The same countries as a list

  1. Peru

Is Tinea caerula 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 Tinea caerula classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumArthropoda
  3. classInsecta
  4. orderLepidoptera
  5. familyTineidae
  6. genusTinea
  7. SpeciesTinea caerula Meyrick, 1927

Synonyms Tinea crocodeta, Tinea praestabilis

Catalogue of Life

Relatives of Tinea caerula

Other species in the same genus Tinea.

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Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

Where does Tinea caerula live?

Catalogue of Life checklists list Tinea caerula for 1 country: Peru. Checklist coverage is uneven, so the true range may be wider.

What kind of animal is Tinea caerula?

Tinea caerula (Tinea caerula) 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). Tinea caerula (Tinea caerula). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/tinea-caerula

MLA

“Tinea caerula (Tinea caerula).” CreatureData, 2026, https://creaturedata.com/animals/tinea-caerula.

BibTeX
@misc{tinea_caerula_2026,
  title = {Tinea caerula (Tinea caerula)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/tinea-caerula},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-11}
}