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title: "Garden Carpet"
description: "Xanthorhoe fluctuata — Insects & spiders. The garden carpet (Xanthorhoe fluctuata) is a moth of the family Geometridae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/animal/garden-carpet
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Garden Carpet

> Xanthorhoe fluctuata — Insects & spiders. The garden carpet (Xanthorhoe fluctuata) is a moth of the family Geometridae.

- Scientific name: *Xanthorhoe fluctuata*
- Category: `insects` (Insects & spiders)
- Habitats: `urban` (Towns & gardens)
- iNaturalist observations: 16380
- Wikidata: [Q765903](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q765903)
- iNaturalist taxon: [243705](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/243705)

## Names

- en: Garden Carpet
- de: Garten-Blattspanner
- fr: Phalène ondée
- nl: Zwartbandspanner
- pl: Paśnik chrzaniak

## Countries with the most observations

GB (5111), DE (1430), FR (1395), ES (1116), PT (783), DK (748), RU (748), FI (590), IT (492), AT (371), NL (358), PL (325)

## Summary

The garden carpet (Xanthorhoe fluctuata) is a moth of the family Geometridae. It is an abundant and familiar species across its huge range which covers the whole Palearctic region from Ireland to Japan and including the Near East and North Africa. It was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae.

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

## Photo

![Garden Carpet](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/garden-carpet/medium.jpg)

Photo: Jean-Paul Boerekamps · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/240512156

## Machine access

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