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Colostygia pectinataria (Green Carpet)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Colostygia pectinataria, the green carpet, is a moth of the genus Colostygia in the family Geometridae. The moth has a wingspan from 22 to 28 mm. 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 two distinct blackish spots near the front edge of the wing (costa) and one on the inner edge . In older specimens, the greenish colour can fade . Sometimes newly emerged hatched moths have a whitish, yellowish or pink colour. The hind wings shimmer grey white and have fain
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Prey / Diet

Galium odoratum (sweetscented bedstraw)[1]
Galium saxatile (heath bedstraw)[1]
Lamium album (white deadnettle)[1]
Origanum vulgare (oregano)[1]

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Attributes / relations provided by
1Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0