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Spruce carpet

Thera britannica (Turner, 1925)

Status not recordedbutterflies and moths

The spruce carpet (Thera britannica) is a species in the family Geometridae, order Lepidoptera.

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Quick facts about the spruce carpet

Weight
Not recorded
Length
Not recorded
Lifespan
Not recorded
Main food
Not recorded
Habitat
forest
Young per litter or clutch
Not recorded
Active
Day and night (cathemeral)
Generations a year
Two
Conservation status
Not recorded
Countries on record
Not recorded

Where does the spruce carpet live?

Not recorded

Where has it been introduced?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists the spruce carpet as introduced in 2 countries.

  1. Ireland
  2. United Kingdom

Introduced means brought by people and now present; invasive means the country's checklist records an impact. A species can be native to one part of a country and introduced in another. Source: Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species (CC BY 4.0).

Is the spruce carpet endangered?

No conservation assessment is recorded for this species in our sources. That is not the same as being safe: it has not been matched to an assessment.

How is the spruce carpet classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumArthropoda
  3. classInsecta
  4. orderLepidoptera
  5. familyGeometridae
  6. genusThera
  7. SpeciesThera britannica (Turner, 1925)

Synonyms Cidaria britannica, Cidaria variata britannica, Thera albonigrata

Other names and names in other languages (17)
  • píďalka černobíláCzech
  • Brychan SbriwsWelsh
  • ÆdelgranmålerDanish
  • Britischer TannenspannerGerman
  • Phalène anglaiseFrench
  • Jegenyefenyő-araszolóHungarian
  • edelgranbarmålerNorwegian Bokmål
  • SchijnsparspannerDutch
  • edelgranbarmålarNorwegian Nynorsk
  • piadivka britskáSlovak
  • nazobčani igličarSlovenian
  • ädelgranfältmätareSwedish
  • Brychanau SbriwsWelsh
  • Sägezahnfühler-NadelholzspannerGerman
  • Corythée anglaiseFrench
  • Schijn-sparspannerDutch
  • ädelgransfältmätareSwedish

Catalogue of Life

Relatives of the spruce carpet

Other species in the same genus Thera.

Fir carpet

Thera vetustata

GeometridaeNo free photo yet

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Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

Is the spruce carpet an invasive species?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists the spruce carpet as introduced in 2 countries: Ireland and United Kingdom, but does not flag it as invasive in any of them.

What kind of animal is the spruce carpet?

The spruce carpet (Thera britannica) belongs to the family Geometridae in the order Lepidoptera.

Sources and how to cite this page

Data as of 2026-11-14. How this page is put together.

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APA

CreatureData. (2026). Spruce carpet (Thera britannica). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/spruce-carpet

MLA

“Spruce carpet (Thera britannica).” CreatureData, 2026, https://creaturedata.com/animals/spruce-carpet.

BibTeX
@misc{spruce_carpet_2026,
  title = {Spruce carpet (Thera britannica)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/spruce-carpet},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-14}
}