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Tinea squalida

Status not recordedbutterflies and moths

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

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Quick facts about Tinea squalida

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 squalida 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 squalida is listed for 1 country.

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

The same countries as a list

  1. South Africa

Is Tinea squalida 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 squalida classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumArthropoda
  3. classInsecta
  4. orderLepidoptera
  5. familyTineidae
  6. genusTinea
  7. SpeciesTinea squalida Gozmány, 1968

Catalogue of Life

Relatives of Tinea squalida

Other species in the same genus Tinea.

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Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

Where does Tinea squalida live?

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

What kind of animal is Tinea squalida?

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

MLA

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

BibTeX
@misc{tinea_squalida_2026,
  title = {Tinea squalida (Tinea squalida)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/tinea-squalida},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-11}
}