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Common Name		Latin Name		Food plant(s)		Description
Blue-bordered Carpet		Plemyria rubignata		Blackthorn, alder, plum, birch and apple		Yellowish-green, two broad whitish stripes along the back. Distributed throughout.
Pine Carpet		Thera firmata		Scots pine		Darkish green, thin white lines subdorsally, reddish-brown head. Widespread but local.
Grey Pine Carpet		Thera obeliscata		Scots pine, spruces and firs		Dark green, whitish subdorsal lines. Distributed throughout.
Spruce Carpet		Thera britannica		Norway spruce, Sitka spruce, Douglas fir and Western hemlock.		Dark green, yellow stripe, green head. Distributed over England and Wales, local in Scotland and Ireland.
Chestnut-coloured Carpet		Thera cognata		Juniper		Green, broad bluish-white dorsal line, pure white subdorsal line, line below the spiracles. Locally common in central Scotland and western Ireland.
Juniper Carpet		Thera juniperata		Juniper		Green, broad bluish-white dorsal line, yellowish-white subdorsal line, white line edged with crimson below spiracles. Local in Scotland and western Ireland, decreasing numbers in southern England.
Cypress Carpet		Thera cupressata		Monteray cypress		Green, yellowish tinge between segments, broad rings of white. Parts of coastal southern England.
Netted Carpet		Eustroma reticulataum		Touch-me-not		Light green, faint darker dorsal line, pale opaque stripes subdorsally. Lake District and North Wales.
Broken-barred Carpet		Electrophaes corylata		Birch, hawthorn, oak and blackthorn		Green, purple to black dorsal markings, green head. Widely distributed.
Beech-green Carpet		Colostygia olivata		Hedge bedstraw, heath bedstraw and lady's bedstraw		Pale ochreous, greyish-brown lies dorsally, brownish tubercles with a short bristle, wrinkled body. Local on southern Britain, more widespread in the north.
Mottled Grey		Colostygia multristigaria		Hedge bedstraw, heath bedstraw and lady's bedstraw		Ochreous, grey dorsal lines, ringed with orange between segments. Widely distributed.
Green Carpet		Colostygia pectinataria		Hedge bedstraw, heath bedstraw and lady's bedstraw		Brown or greyish-brown, dark grey chevron markings on the five middle segments, grey dorsal line, few black tubercles with bristles. Fairly common.
July Highflyer		Hydriomena furcata		Sallow, hazel, bilberry and heather		Dull white, large brown square-shaped markings dorsally, mottled and lines subdorsally and along the sides. Widespread.
May Highflyer		Hydriomena impluviata		Alder		Light brown, dark brown dorsal line, square-shaped markings along middle segments, sides mottled dark brown. Widespread but local.
Ruddy Highflyer		Hydriomena ruberata		Sallow		Light reddish-brown or brownish-grey, three grey lines dorsally. Most parts of Britain.
Slender-striped Rufous		Coenocalpe lapidata		Grasses or bedstraw		Ochreous, light grey dorsal line, grey mottling and lines along sides and back. Central and northern Scotland.
Small Waved Umber		Horisme vitalbata		Traveller's-joy		Greyish-brown, dorsal line and blotches in the middle. Southern England and South Wales.
The Fern		Horisme tersata		Traveller's-joy		Light brown, incomplete dorsal line, blotches on the middle rings. Southern England.
Pretty Chalk Carpet		Melanthia procellata		Traveller's-joy		Light brown, three darker lines dorsally, various mottlings of dark brown. Southern Britain.
Barberry Carpet		Pareulype berberata		Barberry		Greyish to reddish-brown, row of small tubercles on each segment, indistinct dorsal line. On the verge of extinction, protected by law. Suffolk, Gloucester and Hampshire.
White-banded Carpet		Spargania luctuata		Rosebay willowherb		Pale green or brown, dark cross-shaped markings. Kent, East Sussex and East Anglia.
Argent and Sable		Rheumaptera hastata		Birch		Brown, thin darker dorsal line, darker line subdorsally. Scotland.
Scarce Tissue		Rheumaptera cervinalis		Barberry		Grey, three faint white lines along the back, orange head, black spiracles surrounded by orange blotch. Southern England and Wales, frequent in East Anglia
Scallop Shell		Rheumaptera undulata		Sallows, aspen and bilberry		Shades of brown or ochreous, broad stripe subdorsally, thin pale edged line dorsally, spiracles ringed with brown. Most of Britain.
The Tissue		Triphosa dubitata		Buckthorn and alder buckthorn		Green, four whitish lines dorsally, broader yellowish line along spiracles, yellow between segments. Widespread but infrequent over southern and central Britain.