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Thera cupressata, the cypress carpet, is a moth of the family Geometridae. It is found in southern and western Europe, including Great Britain, Germany, France, Switzerland, Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Greece and Spain.[1]

Cypress carpet
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Geometridae
Genus:	Thera
Species:	T. cupressata
Binomial name
Thera cupressata (Geyer, 1831)
Synonyms
Geometra cupressata Geyer, 1831

The wingspan is 28–32 mm. Adults are on wing from May to June and again from August to September in two generations per year.[2]

In southern England the larvae feed on Cupressus macrocarpa and Cupressocyparis leylandii. In France they eat Cupressus sempervirens, Cupressus macrocarpa and Juniperus sabina.

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