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Tropical tabby

Pyralis manihotalis Guenée, 1854

Status not recordedbutterflies and moths

The tropical tabby (Pyralis manihotalis) is a species in the family Pyralidae, order Lepidoptera.

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Quick facts about the tropical tabby

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
Not recorded

Where does the tropical tabby live?

Not recorded

Where has it been introduced?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists the tropical tabby as introduced in 1 country.

  1. Ecuador

Introduced means brought by people and now present; invasive means the country's checklist records an impact. A species can be native to one part of a country and introduced in another. Source: Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species (CC BY 4.0).

Is the tropical tabby 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 the tropical tabby classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumArthropoda
  3. classInsecta
  4. orderLepidoptera
  5. familyPyralidae
  6. genusPyralis
  7. SpeciesPyralis manihotalis Guenée, 1854

Synonyms Asopia gerontesalis, Asopia gerontialis, Asopia haematinalis, Endotricha centripunctalis, Pyralis achatina, Pyralis centripunctalis, Pyralis compsobathra, Pyralis despectalis, Pyralis gerontesalis, Pyralis gerontialis, Pyralis haematinalis, Pyralis ingentalis, Pyralis laudatella, Pyralis miseralis, Pyralis pupalis, Pyralis vetusalis, Sacatia laudatella

Other names and names in other languages (4)
  • Tropical meal mothEnglish
  • ネッタイシマメイガJapanese
  • ผีเสื้อหนอนกอมันสำปะหลังThai
  • 木薯縞螟Chinese

Catalogue of Life

Relatives of the tropical tabby

Other species in the same genus Pyralis.

Meal moth

Pyralis farinalis

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Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

Is the tropical tabby an invasive species?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists the tropical tabby as introduced in 1 country: Ecuador, but does not flag it as invasive in any of them.

What kind of animal is the tropical tabby?

The tropical tabby (Pyralis manihotalis) belongs to the family Pyralidae in the order Lepidoptera.

Sources and how to cite this page

Data as of 2026-11-14. How this page is put together.

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APA

CreatureData. (2026). Tropical tabby (Pyralis manihotalis). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/tropical-tabby

MLA

“Tropical tabby (Pyralis manihotalis).” CreatureData, 2026, https://creaturedata.com/animals/tropical-tabby.

BibTeX
@misc{tropical_tabby_2026,
  title = {Tropical tabby (Pyralis manihotalis)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/tropical-tabby},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-14}
}