Beech-green Carpet

Colostygia olivata

Classification

Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Geometridae

Colostygia olivata, the beech-green carpet, is a moth of the family Geometridae. It was first described by Michael Denis and Ignaz Schiffermüller in 1775 and it is found in most of the Palearctic. The wingspan is 22–27 millimetres (0.

Distribution

Beech-green Carpet — (c) Annika Lindqvist, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Annika Lindqvist · CC-BY

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

Switzerland · 176Germany · 97France · 83Italy · 73United Kingdom · 10Spain · 6Belgium · 1Luxembourg · 1

Sources and credits

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