Zanclognatha tarsipennalis

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,[1] Amur, Ussuri, Japan, Taiwan, Korea and China.

Fan-foot
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Genus: Zanclognatha
Species:
Z. tarsipennalis
Binomial name
Zanclognatha tarsipennalis
(Treitschke, 1835)
Synonyms
  • Herminia tarsipennalis Treitschke, 1835

Technical description and variation
For a key to the terms used, see Glossary of entomology terms.

The length of the forewings is 13–16 millimetres (0.51–0.63 in). 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.Larva dull grey; the dorsal line greyish black; tubercles black ringed with yellowish green; spiracles black; head black brown.[2]

Larva (figure 2)

Biology

The moth flies from May to October depending on the location.

The larvae feed on fallen leaves of European beech, oak and Rubus.

References
  1. "Herminia tarsipennalis". 2.6.2. Fauna Europaea. 29 August 2013. Retrieved 4 June 2017.
  2. Seitz, A. Ed., 1914 Die Großschmetterlinge der Erde, Verlag Alfred Kernen, Stuttgart Band 3: Abt. 1, Die Großschmetterlinge des palaearktischen Faunengebietes, Die palaearktischen eulenartigen Nachtfalter, 1914.


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