Garden Carpet

Xanthorhoe fluctuata Linnaeus 1758

2015 Simon J. Tonge cc-by-3.0

Xanthorhoe fluctuata (Garden Carpet) is a species of Lepidoptera in the family geometrid moths. They visit flowers of dog rose, creeping buttercup, and Ribwort Plantain.

EOL has data for 14 attributes, including:

Body symmetry
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/body_symmetry
- Definition: overall repetitive or reflective pattern in the body of one individual of this taxon. eg: bilateral symmetry, rotational symmetry, radial symmetry
show all records
bilaterally symmetric
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PATO_0001324
- Definition: being symmetric about a plane running from frontal end to caudal end (head to tail), and having nearly identical right and left halves
show all records
preyed upon by
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002458
show all records
Rhinolophus euryale Blasius 1853 (Mediterranean Horseshoe Bat)
cellularity
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PATO_0001992
- Definition: An organismal quality inhering in a bearer by virtue of the bearers consisting cells. [ PATOC:GVG ]
show all records
multicellular
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PATO_0001993
- Definition: A cellularity quality inhering in a bearer by virtue of the bearers consisting of more than one cell. [ PATOC:GVG ]
show all records
developmental mode
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/DevelopmentalMode
- Definition: Broad recognized categories describing development, the process by which organisms grow and mature
show all records
holometabolous
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/holometabolous
- Definition: Development of insects with complete metamorphosis which involves a pupal stage.
show all records
eats
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002470
show all records
Tropaeolum majus L. (Garden Nasturtium)
feeding structure
- URI: https://eol.org/schema/terms/FeedingStructure
- Definition: The morphological structure of body parts used to ingest food.
show all records
biting-chewing mouthparts
- URI: https://eol.org/schema/terms/bitingChewing
- Definition: Mouthparts adapted to cutting and grinding food particles using opposable mandibles with a mola (grinding surface).
show all records
geographic distribution includes
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/Present
- Definition: This organism is known to be present in this location or region. Not exclusive; other regions may also be reported.
show all records
Norway
- URI: http://www.geonames.org/3144096
show all records
has host
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002454
- Attribution: From OBO Relation Ontology
show all records
Alliaria petiolata (M. Bieb.) Cavara & Grande (Garlic Mustard)
overwintering life stage
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/OverwinteringStage
- Definition: number of generations or broods of an organism per year
show all records
pupa
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0003143
- Definition: A life cycle stage of holometabolous insects in which the organism is a pupa and starts with the larval-pupal apolysis and ends with pupal-adult apolysis
show all records
type specimen repository
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/TypeSpecimenRepository
- Definition: The institution that holds a type specimen for a given species. The recommended best practice is to use the identifier in a collections registry such as the Biodiversity Collections Index (http://www.biodiversitycollectionsindex.org/).
show all records
NHMUK
visits flowers of
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002622
show all records
Rosa canina L. (dog rose)
voltinism
- URI: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q946680
- Definition: number of generations or broods of an organism per year
show all records
multivoltine
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/multivoltine
- Definition: completing two or more generations per year
show all records

Known occurrences, collected specimens and observations of garden carpet. View this species on GBIF

2015 Simon J. Tonge cc-by-3.0

garden carpet includes 4 children: