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Wood-ant clothes

Myrmecozela ochraceella (Tengström, 1848)

Status not recordedbutterflies and moths

The wood-ant clothes (Myrmecozela ochraceella) is a species in the family Tineidae, order Lepidoptera. Source checklists list it for 1 country: Finland.

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Quick facts about the wood-ant clothes

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 the wood-ant clothes 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.

The wood-ant clothes is listed for 1 country.

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

The same countries as a list

  1. Finland

Why a country list is not a range map

Is the wood-ant clothes 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 wood-ant clothes classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumArthropoda
  3. classInsecta
  4. orderLepidoptera
  5. familyTineidae
  6. genusMyrmecozela
  7. SpeciesMyrmecozela ochraceella (Tengström, 1848)

Synonyms Tinea ochraceella, Tinea perochraceella

Other names and names in other languages (9)
  • Wood-ant clothes mothEnglish
  • MyretuemølDanish
  • kekokoiFinnish
  • hangyabolymolyHungarian
  • Rudoji mirmekozelaLithuanian
  • maurtuemøllNorwegian Bokmål
  • Моль муравейнаяRussian
  • myrstackmalSwedish
  • myrstacksmalSwedish

Catalogue of Life

Relatives of the wood-ant clothes

Other species in the same genus Myrmecozela.

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Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

Where does the wood-ant clothes live?

Catalogue of Life checklists list the wood-ant clothes for 1 country: Finland. Checklist coverage is uneven, so the true range may be wider.

What kind of animal is the wood-ant clothes?

The wood-ant clothes (Myrmecozela ochraceella) 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). Wood-ant clothes (Myrmecozela ochraceella). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/wood-ant-clothes

MLA

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BibTeX
@misc{wood_ant_clothes_2026,
  title = {Wood-ant clothes (Myrmecozela ochraceella)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/wood-ant-clothes},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-11}
}