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Tinea cretella

Status not recordedbutterflies and moths

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

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Quick facts about Tinea cretella

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 cretella 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 cretella is listed for 1 country.

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

The same countries as a list

  1. Haiti

Why a country list is not a range map

Is Tinea cretella 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 cretella classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumArthropoda
  3. classInsecta
  4. orderLepidoptera
  5. familyTineidae
  6. genusTinea
  7. SpeciesTinea cretella Walsingham, 1897

Catalogue of Life

Relatives of Tinea cretella

Other species in the same genus Tinea.

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Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

Where does Tinea cretella live?

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

What kind of animal is Tinea cretella?

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

MLA

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

BibTeX
@misc{tinea_cretella_2026,
  title = {Tinea cretella (Tinea cretella)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/tinea-cretella},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-11}
}