Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Superfamily Noctuoidea Rank Species | Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Family Erebidae | |
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Scientific name Zanclognatha tarsipennalis Similar Herminia grisealis, Herminia, Butterflies and moths, Herminia tarsicrinalis, Zanclognatha | ||
Zanclognatha tarsipennalis, the fan-foot, is a species of litter moth of the family Erebidae. It is found in Europe and east across the Palearctic to Siberia, Amur, Ussuri, Japan, Taiwan, Korea and China.
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Technical description and variation
The length of the forewings is 13–16 mm. The moth flies from May to October depending on the location. Forewing narrower and greyer, less purple, than Polypogon lunalis Scopoli, 1763, sometimes with a yellowish flush; the inner and outer lines nearer together; the subterminal line simple, brown without any shade before, slightly concave outwards; the cell lunule obscurer; hindwing paler grey, the subterminal dark, strongly white-edged externally; the ab. bidentalis Hein. is paler grey, with a faint yellowish or rufous flush, the sub-terminal line of hindwing hardly angled.
Biology
Larva dull grey; the dorsal line greyish black; tubercles black ringed with yellowish green; spiracles black; head black brown. The larvae feed on fallen leaves of European beech, oak and Rubus.