Description: Wingspan 32-39mm. Adults are quite variable with a number of colour forms and varieties. The majority of adults have darkish grey forewings with a darker median band but this is not always clearly defined. Some specimens are distinctively marked with a broad central, rust-coloured band. From the end of April to late September.

World Distribution: Throughout Europe and Asia to western China.

Irish Distribution: Common and widespread throughout all counties including Rathlin Island.

Ecology: A common species found in a wide variety of habitats including rural and urban gardens. Adults appear frequently at light in moderate numbers. The larvae feed on willow Salix spp., birch Betula spp., Bramble Rubus fruticosus, Bilberry Vaccinium myrtillus, Hawthorn Crataegus monogyna and probably other plants. It overwinters as a larva.

Key Identification Features:

• Main colour form dark grey, but often variable
• The dark central band not always clearly defined in some colour forms
• Postmedian line on the hindwing more rounded than the Dark Marbled Carpet

Distribution Map from NBN: Chloroclysta truncata at National Biodiversity Network mapping facility, data for UK.

iNaturalist: Chloroclysta truncata at iNaturalist World Species Observations database.