Northern Pine Looper Moth

Caripeta piniata · Order: Lepidoptera · Family: Geometridae

Also called: Northern Pine Looper

No source yet on danger. We have no source yet on whether it bites, stings or damages anything.
Northern Pine Looper Moth
Photo: unknown, CC0

The northern pine looper moth is a geometrid in the family Geometridae. It lives in North America.

Source: Wikipedia

How to recognize it

Caripeta piniata, known as the northern pine looper, belongs to the Geometridae family of moths.

Source: Wikipedia

Where it lives

This species is found in North America.

Source: Wikipedia

Where it comes from

It is native to North America.

Source: Wikipedia

Where it is found in the US

Recorded in 21 of 51 states and DC. Most records: Massachusetts, Vermont, Maine, Michigan, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, New Hampshire.

Darker = more records. Counts are museum and citizen-science records, not population size.

Source: GBIF

Status: native in North America; native in Canada; native in United States. Source: iNaturalist

Months it is reported in the US

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Source: GBIF

More photos

Northern Pine Looper Moth photo 3
Photo: Matthew Spoor, CC BY
Northern Pine Looper Moth photo 4
Photo: Desiree L. Narango, CC BY
Northern Pine Looper Moth photo 5
Photo: Stan Rullman, CC BY
Northern Pine Looper Moth photo 6
Photo: Cherrie Corey, CC BY

Same family (Geometridae)

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Sources

  • Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caripeta_piniata

Look it up elsewhere: GBIF · iNaturalist · BugGuide · ITIS · Wikipedia

Text written 2026-10-23 from the sources above and checked sentence by sentence against them. Data fetched 2026-10-23.

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