Green Carpet

Colostygia pectinataria

(Knoch, 1781)

National status

Unassessed

Local assessment

Unassessed

Last updated

2025-07-24

Statistics

Occurrences

3,481 since 2000 3,650 all time

Occupied 1 km squares

205 since 2000 231 all time

Earliest occurrence

1946

Latest occurrence

2026

Distribution

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Occurrence since 1950

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This chart should not be relied upon for an indication of species status as variations in recording effort can heavily affect the count of occurrences and occupied 1km squares.

Monthly occurrences

References

Fox R, Dennis EB, Harrower CA, Blumgart D, Bell JR, Cook P, Davis AM, Evans-Hill LJ, Haynes F, Hill D, Isaac NJB, Parsons MS, Pocock MJO, Prescott T, Randle Z, Shortall CR, Tordoff GM, Tuson D & Bourn NAD (2021) The State of Britain’s Larger Moths 2021. Butterfly Conservation, Rothamsted Research and UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Wareham, Dorset, UK. https://butterfly-conservation.org/moths/the-state-of-britains-moths

Data sources

Local species recorders

Buglife.

Lincolnshire Biodiversity Partnership (now the GLNP).

Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust.

Natural England. Invertebrate Common Standards Monitoring and ISIS Test Data. Licenced under OGL http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3.

Sustainable Caistor.

The International Barcode of Life Consortium. International Barcode of Life project (iBOL). Licenced under CC-BY https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0.

Cite this page

GLNP (2025). Colostygia pectinataria (Knoch, 1781) species profile, in Greater Lincolnshire Nature Partnership (ed.) Greater Lincolnshire species data bank. Available at: http://glincsson.glnp.org.uk/view?t=NBNSYS0000005856 (Accessed 24 August 2026).