#2597 · 🦋 butterflies & moths

Marbled Carpet Moth

🇳🇱 Schimmelspanner ·Dysstroma truncata

🦋 Butterflies & moths 📍 in the Netherlands

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Dick · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
2. © Donald Hobern · CC BY 4.0
3. © Rasmus Allesoee · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Douglas Napier · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Douglas Napier · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Kjeld Brem · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
7. 6721 Bennekom, Nederland:© Chris van Swaay · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. 6721 Bennekom, Nederland:© Chris van Swaay · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Bennekom, Nederland:© Chris van Swaay · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Heemskerklaan, Velp, Gelderland, NL:© Gideon van Melle · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The common marbled carpet (Dysstroma truncata) is a moth of the family Geometridae. It is sometimes placed in the genus Chloroclysta . It is very common throughout the Palearctic region and the Near East.

base stats

NL sightings 121iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 10,149iNaturalist observations

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).