#2454 · 🦋 butterflies & moths
Common Carpet Moth
🇳🇱 Gewone Bandspanner ·Epirrhoe alternata
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what is it?
The common carpet or white-banded toothed carpet ( Epirrhoe alternata ) is a moth of the family Geometridae. It is found throughout the Palearctic and the Near East. In North America it ranges across the northern tier of the United States plus every province and territory of Canada.
base stats
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).
fun facts
- Spotted 390 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 32,027 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Otto Friedrich Müller in 1764 (262 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Common Carpet Moth
- Nederlands
- Gewone Bandspanner
- scientific name
- Epirrhoe alternata
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Lepidoptera
- family
- Geometridae
- sightings in NL
- 390
- sightings in Europe
- 22,092
- sightings worldwide
- 32,027
- GBIF records in NL
- 33,172
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1764 by Otto Friedrich Müller
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Sources: iNaturalist taxon 127618, Wikidata Q1543684, GBIF 8361848, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.