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Family: Geometridae   Checklist Number: 70.046

Orthonama vittata  (Borkhausen, 1794)

Oblique Carpet

Frequently recoded from damp habitats such as bogs, ditches and scrub. On the wing in the north from June to August. The larval food-plants are bedstraws (Galium spp.).

References: 
Leverton, R. & Cubitt, M. (2024). The Larger Moths of Scotland.
Waring, P. & Townsend, M. (2018 third edition). Field Guide to the Moths of Great Britain and Ireland.

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