Aleucis distinctata
In 3 days ~20% in a week ~30%
Aleucis distinctata, the sloe carpet or Kent mocha, is a moth of the family Geometridae. The species was first described by Gottlieb August Wilhelm Herrich-Schäffer in 1839. It is found from Europe to Turkey, Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan.
The wingspan is 27–31 mm. The head is fuscous. The forewings are fuscous, sprinkled with darker. The first line is hardly curved, the second is subsinuate, waved and dark fuscous. There is a dark fuscous discal spot. The hindwings are whitish-fuscous, the dorsum sprinkled with darker with a discal dot and a waved second line. The larva is brown-grey segments 5–8 with a dark V-shaped dorsal mark; segments 1,2 with a
black transverse line; segments 8, 9 with whitish lateral patches; segments 3, 4 with a short oblique black lateral streak; segments 6–9 with black lateral spots. Very like Theria rupicapraria but smaller, with simple antenna, abdomen with white dorsal dots. Local in Central Europe ab. contrastaria Fuchs has the median area darkened. orientalis Stgr.[now full species], the usual eastern form, is paler, more greyish. Asia Minor, Palestine and Mardin.
The larvae feed on Prunus spinosa. Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sierra de Guadarrama National Park | 🇪🇸 Spain |
More parks will be added in future updates.
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Sloe Carpet sighting in Sierra de Guadarrama National Park on a given day, based on 16 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 207th most-seen of the 597 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 20%, and over a week to about 30%, if each day is a fresh chance.
March
In that month about 20% of wildlife watchers report a Sloe Carpet in Sierra de Guadarrama National Park on a given day, against under 5% in May to January, the lowest months.
Between 10 pm and 1 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Sloe Carpet sightings with a recorded time, and about 8 in 10 of them come between 6 pm and 6 am: it is mostly seen at night.
Only Sierra de Guadarrama National Park, in our data
Sierra de Guadarrama National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Sloe Carpet sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same family: Geometridae
The closest relatives of the Sloe Carpet that you can see in Sierra de Guadarrama National Park (family Geometridae, Geometer Moths) are Yellow Shell Moth (about 10%), Heliothea discoidaria (about 10%) and Chimney-Sweeper (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Sloe Carpet is recorded against all the insects logged in Sierra de Guadarrama National Park (16 verified sightings from 2019 to 2026), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
