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Common Marbled Carpet

Dysstroma truncata

10,539Records since 2000
SeptemberPeak month
99Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb0
Mar2
Apr18
May1,813
Jun2,355
Jul637
Aug1,142
Sep2,600
Oct1,145
Nov93
Dec3

GBIF records by month, 2000–2025 (all years combined).

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1West Berkshire England1,263
2Oxfordshire England1,194
3Argyll and Bute Scotland654
4Worcestershire England576
5Antrim and Newtownabbey Northern Ireland318
6Na h-Eileanan Siar Scotland285
7Highland Scotland279
8Sefton England263
9Causeway Coast and Glens Northern Ireland204
10Newry, Mourne and Down Northern Ireland204
11Mid and East Antrim Northern Ireland148
12Telford and Wrekin England122
13Armagh City, Banbridge and Craig Northern Ireland109
14Lisburn and Castlereagh Northern Ireland107
15Cornwall England102
7,445 England1,478 Scotland234 Wales1,347 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 99 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
10,539
Peak month
September
Counties with records
99
Scientific name
Dysstroma truncata
Group
Butterflies and moths
NBN Atlas records since 2000
8,463
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Geometridae
Genus
Dysstroma
Name with authority
Dysstroma truncata (Hufnagel, 1767)
Described
1767
Contributing datasets
37

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q519983 · GBIF 1962434