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title: "Marbled Carpet Moth"
description: "Dysstroma truncata — Insetti e ragni. The common marbled carpet (Dysstroma truncata) is a moth of the family Geometridae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/it/animal/marbled-carpet-moth
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Marbled Carpet Moth

> Dysstroma truncata — Insetti e ragni. The common marbled carpet (Dysstroma truncata) is a moth of the family Geometridae.

- Scientific name: *Dysstroma truncata*
- Category: `insects` (Insetti e ragni)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 9970
- Wikidata: [Q519983](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q519983)
- iNaturalist taxon: [218844](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/218844)

## Names

- en: Marbled Carpet Moth
- de: Möndchenflecken-Bindenspanner
- fr: Cidarie roussâtre
- nl: Schimmelspanner
- pl: Paśnik obcinek

## Countries with the most observations

GB (4960), DE (697), DK (508), FR (432), CH (279), AT (244), IE (160), FI (141), RU (121), NL (120), ES (116), SE (106)

## Summary

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. The species was first described by Johann Siegfried Hufnagel in 1767.
This is one of the most variable of the geometrids both in size (wingspan 32–39 mm) and colour. The basal and terminal areas of the forewings are marked with fascia separated by a large plain area in the middle, but the colouration of all these areas is confusingly variable from white to black with various grey, brown and reddish tones in between…

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

## Photo

![Marbled Carpet Moth](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/marbled-carpet-moth/medium.jpg)

Photo: Chris Raper · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/183515165

## Machine access

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