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title: "Gewone bandspanner"
description: "Epirrhoe alternata — Insecten en spinnen. The common carpet or white-banded toothed carpet (Epirrhoe alternata) is a moth of the family Geometridae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/nl/animal/common-carpet-moth
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Gewone bandspanner

> Epirrhoe alternata — Insecten en spinnen. The common carpet or white-banded toothed carpet (Epirrhoe alternata) is a moth of the family Geometridae.

- Scientific name: *Epirrhoe alternata*
- Category: `insects` (Insecten en spinnen)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 31808
- Wikidata: [Q1543684](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1543684)
- iNaturalist taxon: [127618](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/127618)

## Names

- en: Common Carpet Moth
- de: Graubinden-Labkrautspanner
- fr: Alternée
- nl: Gewone bandspanner

## Countries with the most observations

GB (4019), DE (3876), US (2720), FR (2263), RU (2107), AT (1628), CA (1502), DK (935), FI (856), CH (817), ES (801), IT (778)

## Summary

The common carpet or white-banded toothed carpet (Epirrhoe alternata) is a moth of the family Geometridae. The species was first described by Otto Friedrich Müller in 1764. 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.

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

## Photo

![Gewone bandspanner](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/common-carpet-moth/medium.jpg)

Photo: Kent P. McFarland · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/234260233

## Machine access

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