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title: "Green Carpet"
description: "Colostygia pectinataria — Insetti e ragni. Colostygia pectinataria, the green carpet, is a Palearctic moth of the genus Colostygia in the family Geometridae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/it/animal/green-carpet
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Green Carpet

> Colostygia pectinataria — Insetti e ragni. Colostygia pectinataria, the green carpet, is a Palearctic moth of the genus Colostygia in the family Geometridae.

- Scientific name: *Colostygia pectinataria*
- Category: `insects` (Insetti e ragni)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 8521
- Wikidata: [Q1306018](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1306018)
- iNaturalist taxon: [129158](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/129158)

## Names

- en: Green Carpet
- de: Prachtgrüner Bindenspanner
- fr: Cidarie verdâtre
- nl: Kleine groenbandspanner

## Countries with the most observations

GB (3509), DE (1369), FR (615), AT (492), ES (278), PL (189), RU (171), DK (162), CH (160), NL (128), IT (123), LU (117)

## Summary

Colostygia pectinataria, the green carpet, is a Palearctic moth of the genus Colostygia in the family Geometridae. It was first described by August Wilhelm Knoch in 1781.

The moth has a wingspan from 22 to 28 millimetres (0.87 to 1.10 in). The strong forewing ground colour is green to bluish green. The wing pattern shows the following colour sequence: a small region at the wing base brown green, the ensuing basal region brighter green, a wide and strongly serrated on the outside discal region dark green edged with white, the postdiscal region whitish green and the marginal region tinted brownish green. There are…

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

## Photo

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

Photo: Jean-Paul Boerekamps · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/217865016

## Machine access

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