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Tinea margaritis

Status not recordedbutterflies and moths

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

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Quick facts about Tinea margaritis

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 margaritis 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 margaritis is listed for 1 country.

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

The same countries as a list

  1. New Zealand

Is Tinea margaritis 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 margaritis classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumArthropoda
  3. classInsecta
  4. orderLepidoptera
  5. familyTineidae
  6. genusTinea
  7. SpeciesTinea margaritis Meyrick, 1914

Catalogue of Life

Relatives of Tinea margaritis

Other species in the same genus Tinea.

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Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

Where does Tinea margaritis live?

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

What kind of animal is Tinea margaritis?

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

MLA

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

BibTeX
@misc{tinea_margaritis_2026,
  title = {Tinea margaritis (Tinea margaritis)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/tinea-margaritis},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-11}
}