Peleopodidae
Carcina quercana
CARCINA quercana (Fabricius, 1775)
Carcina quercana
CARCINA quercana (Fabricius, 1775)
Life Cycle Guide
Description
Vernacular Name: Long-horned Flat-body
Wingspan: 15-19mm
Worldwide Distribution: Europe - less Estonia,Latvia,Lithuania,Ukraine and some Mediterranean Islands : Introduced into N America - British Columbia & W Washington
UK Distribution: Common throughout British Isles but local in Scotland
UK Conservation Status -
Habitat: Deciduous Woodland : Hedgerows : Scrub : Gardens
Similar Species -
Overwinters as: Larva
Observations: The moth is variable in colour from cream to orangy brown or blackish pink. The basal area is darker than the main forewing colour with a series of yellow marks pointing backwards.On the centre of the forewing at the costa are another pair of yellow marks and four discal dark spots.The terminal line is the same colour as the basal area and the fringe is creamy white.The termen is strainght but angled inwards.
The moth is readily disturbed during the day and is attracted to light.
Wingspan: 15-19mm
Worldwide Distribution: Europe - less Estonia,Latvia,Lithuania,Ukraine and some Mediterranean Islands : Introduced into N America - British Columbia & W Washington
UK Distribution: Common throughout British Isles but local in Scotland
UK Conservation Status -
- Common = > 300 10km squares
- Least Concern
- Pyralis quercana (Fabricius, 1775)
- Tortrix fagana ([Denis & Schiffermüller],1775)
- Saxony
Habitat: Deciduous Woodland : Hedgerows : Scrub : Gardens
Similar Species -
- None
Overwinters as: Larva
Observations: The moth is variable in colour from cream to orangy brown or blackish pink. The basal area is darker than the main forewing colour with a series of yellow marks pointing backwards.On the centre of the forewing at the costa are another pair of yellow marks and four discal dark spots.The terminal line is the same colour as the basal area and the fringe is creamy white.The termen is strainght but angled inwards.
The moth is readily disturbed during the day and is attracted to light.
Photo Gallery
Larval Food Plants Worldwide
Note - Plants hyperlinked in red below take the visitor to the relevant plant page on"Plants for a Future" website
where further information like photos,physical
characteristics,habitats,edible uses,medicinal
uses,cultivation,propagation,range,height etc. are clearly listed.
- Plant Families - in bold red below takes the visitor to the relevant "Lepi-plants" page where other butterflies & moths using the plants below are listed.
- Aceraceae - Maple Family
- Acer campestre - Field Maple
- Acer pseudoplatanus - Sycamore
- Fagaceae - Oak - Chestnut - Beech Family
- Castanea sativa - Sweet Chestnut
- Fagus sylvatica - Beech
- Quercus garryana - Oregon White Oak
- Quercus petraea - Sessile Oak
- Quercus robur - Pedunculate Oak - Common Oak
- Quercus suber - Cork oak
- Rosaceae - Rose Family
- Pyracantha coccinea - Firethorn
- Rubus fruticosus - Bramble - Blackberry
Larval Food Plants
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Taxonomy
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Animalia
Eumetozoa Arthropoda Hexapoda Insecta Lepidoptera Gelechioidea Peleopodidae CARCINA Hübner,[1825]) Carcina quercana (Fabricius, 1775) - Tortrix fagana ([Denis & Schiffermüller],1775) PYRALIS quercana (Fabricius, 1775) = cancella (Hübner, 1823-24) = faganella (Treitschke, 1833) = Carcina purpurana Millière, 1874 = Carcina cancrella = Lampros faganella Treitschke, 183?. - Systema entomologiae, sistens insectorvm classes, ordines, genera, species, adiectis synonymis, locis, descriptionibvs, observationibvs. - Flensbvrgi, Lipsiae. in officina libraria Kort : Fabricius, Johann Christian 1775 : Title Page : p.652 - n.39 - Saxony |