Horisme intestinata

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| image = Horisme intestinata.jpg

| image2 = Horisme intestinata - Brown Bark Carpet Moth (14092035080).jpg

| taxon = Horisme intestinata

| authority = (Guenee, 1857)

| synonyms =

  • Phibalapteryx intestinata Guenee, 1857
  • Phibalapteryx impleta Walker, 1866
  • Phibalapteryx indoctrinata Walker, 1863

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Horisme intestinata, the brown bark carpet moth, is a moth of the family Geometridae. It is widespread throughout most of temperate North America. The habitat consists of wooded areas.{{cite web |author=Anweiler, G. G. |date=2007 |url=https://search.museums.ualberta.ca/g/2-6177 |title=Species Details: Horisme intestinata |website=University of Alberta Museums |publisher=E.H. Strickland Entomological Museum |access-date=December 27, 2020}}

The wingspan is 21–32 mm.[http://bugguide.net/node/view/15294 Bug Guide]{{cite book|last=Beadle, Leckie|first=David, Seabrooke|title=Peterson Field Guide to Moths of Northeastern North America|year=2012|publisher=Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company|isbn=978-0-547-23848-7|pages=611}} Adults are on wing from late May to late July and again from early September to early October.

The larvae have been recorded feeding on garden Clematis.[http://nitro.biosci.arizona.edu/zeeb/butterflies/figs/moth_larvae/Geometridae/H_intestinata.jpg Image of larva]

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Category:Moths described in 1857

Category:Melanthiini

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