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Devon Carpet  Lampropteryx otregiata (Adult)

Hembury Woods, Devon

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1751 Devon Carpet Lampropteryx otregiata

(Metcalfe, 1917)

Wingspan 27-30 mm.

A relatively scarce species, found mainly in the south and south-west of England and south Wales.

There are two generations, with adults on the wing in May and June, then again in August and September.

The caterpillars are brown with paler buff markings, and feed on common marsh bedstraw (Galium palustre) and possibly also fen bedstraw (Galium uliginosum).