---
title: "Bent-lined Carpet"
description: "Costaconvexa centrostrigaria — Insects & spiders. Costaconvexa centrostrigaria, the traveller or bent-line carpet, is a moth in the family Geometridae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/animal/bent-lined-carpet
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Bent-lined Carpet

> Costaconvexa centrostrigaria — Insects & spiders. Costaconvexa centrostrigaria, the traveller or bent-line carpet, is a moth in the  family Geometridae.

- Scientific name: *Costaconvexa centrostrigaria*
- Category: `insects` (Insects & spiders)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 28264
- Wikidata: [Q5174989](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5174989)
- iNaturalist taxon: [143005](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/143005)

## Names

- en: Bent-lined Carpet

## Countries with the most observations

US (20524), CA (3617), PT (86), ES (68), MX (6), PM (5)

## Summary

Costaconvexa centrostrigaria, the traveller or bent-line carpet, is a moth in the  family Geometridae. It is native to most of North America, except the Arctic. It is an introduced species in Great Britain, the Canary Islands, the Azores and Madeira.
The wingspan is 17–23 mm. Adults are on wing from May to October in Ontario, March to November in north-eastern North America and year-round in Texas and the west. There are two or more generations per year.
The larvae feed on Polygonum species.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costaconvexa_centrostrigaria

## Photo

![Bent-lined Carpet](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/bent-lined-carpet/medium.jpg)

Photo: Ben Keen · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/189727293

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/bent-lined-carpet?lang=en` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).