Carcina quercana
Long-horned Flat-body
Wingspan 16-22 mm. A smallish but brightly coloured moth with noticeably long antennae.
Well wooded areas
July and August - it is nocturnal and comes to light.
The food plants are various deciduous trees, including Oak and Beech
Occurring fairly frequently throughout Britain. In the Butterfly Conservation’s Microlepidoptera Report 2011 this species was classified as common.
Quite common in Leicestershire and Rutland. L&R Moth Group status = A (common and resident)
 Harecroft Crescent Sapcote SP49019371 (taken 8.7.2010),.JPG)
Graham Calow
Sapcote garden1
08 July 2010
egaten
Thurlaston garden
25 July 2015
Graham Calow
Sapcote
14 July 2012
Graham Calow
Sapcote garden1
22 July 2016
 Harecroft Crescent Sapcote SP49019371 (taken 8.7.2010),.JPG)
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Species profile
- Common names
- Long-horned Flat-body, Oak Long-horn
- Species group:
- insect - moth
- Kingdom:
- Animalia
- Order:
- Lepidoptera
- Family:
- Peleopodidae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 255
- First record:
- 01/01/1998 (Adrian Russell)
- Last record:
- 06/10/2025 (Garnett, Richard)
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Rod Baker
Newton Harcourt
11 August 2012
Barbara Cooper
Long Clawson
22 July 2018
Nigel Judson
Grace Dieu
02 July 2018
Carcina quercana, Grace Dieu, 02.07.2018
Barbara Cooper
Long Clawson
26 June 2020
David Nicholls
Ratby garden
19 July 2021
