---
title: "Paśnik chrzaniak"
description: "Xanthorhoe fluctuata — Owady i pająki. The garden carpet (Xanthorhoe fluctuata) is a moth of the family Geometridae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pl/animal/garden-carpet
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Paśnik chrzaniak

> Xanthorhoe fluctuata — Owady i pająki. The garden carpet (Xanthorhoe fluctuata) is a moth of the family Geometridae.

- Scientific name: *Xanthorhoe fluctuata*
- Category: `insects` (Owady i pająki)
- Habitats: `urban` (Miasta i ogrody)
- 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

![Paśnik chrzaniak](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=pl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).