Common fan-foot | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Noctuidae |
Genus: | Pechipogo |
Species: | P. strigilata |
Binomial name | |
Pechipogo strigilata (Linnaeus, 1758) |
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Synonyms | |
Phalaena (Geometra) strigilata Linnaeus, 1758 |
Phalaena (Geometra) strigilata Linnaeus, 1758
[Phalaena] barbalis Clerck, 1759
Phalaena palpalis Fabricius, 1775
Pyralis pectitalis Hübner, 1796
Crambus barbata Haworth, 1809
Crambus palpatus Haworth, 1809
Pechipogon barbalis
Polypogon strigilatus
Pechipogo strigilata, the common fan-foot, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found throughout Europe to the Urals then east across the Palearctic to Siberia, Amur, Ussuri, Korea and Japan.
The wingspan is 30–35 mm.: Forewing ochreous dusted very densely with yellow brown;a slight dark cell mark; inner and outer lines brownish, more or less parallel, the inner curved in cell, the outer more widely beyond it; subterminal line oblique; hindwing with costal area pale, without markings;a faint outer line; subterminal dark, externally edged with pale.
The moth flies from late May until early July.
Larva dull reddish ochreous, with dorsal, subdorsal, and lateral rows of dark freckled diamond-shaped marks; head fuscous. The larvae feed on dead, decaying leaves of oak, alder and birch.