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Herminia, Pechipogo, Pechipogon, Zanclognatha
Adults. Head loosely scaled. Head with a frontal tuft. Eyes glabrous; not ciliated. Antennae of males ciliate, or bipectinate (strigilata, with short pectinations ending in long bristles). Labial palps long; ascending.
Wingspan 23–33 mm. Thorax and abdomen concolorous with the forewings, or the abdomen more like the hindwings. Forewings brownish, or light greyish brown; patterned transversely; the patterning well marked (with three narrow, darker transverse lines); reniform defined to undefined; orbicular undefined; claviform undefined. Hindwings pale fuscous, or whitish; conspicuously patterned; without a clear discal mark; twice transversely lined; exhibiting vein 5. Vein 5 of the hindwings strong; arising nearer to vein 4 than to vein 6; parallel with vein 4. Thorax not crested. The males with anterior tarsi, or lacking anterior tarsi; conspicuously fan-footed, via a long, expansible hair-pencil on each anterior tibia. Posterior tibiae with spines; with appressed scales. Abdomen not crested.
Living adults found May to July.
Larvae, pupae. Larvae posteriorly rounded, or posteriorly tapered; feeding on foliage of Rubus, Quercus (including dead leaves), Hedera, Polygonum, etc.; pupating on vegetative parts of the foodplant, or on the surface of the ground.
British representation. 4 species; South-east England, Central-southern England, South-west England, English Midlands, Northern England, Southern Scotland, Northern Scotland, Wales, and Ireland; grisealis (Small Fan-foot), strigilata (Common Fan-foot), tarsicrinalis (The Fan-foot), tarsipennalis (The Fan-foot).
Herminiinae.
Illustrations. • Polypogon strigulata (Common Fan-foot, = Pechipogo) and P. tarsipennalis (The Fan-foot, = Zanclognatha), with other Herminiinae, Hypeninae and Rivulinae: Leech, 1886. NOCTUIDAE-RIVULINAE. 1. Colobochyla salicalis (Lesser Belle). 9, Rivula sericealis(Straw Dot). HYPENINAE. 2, Hypena proboscidalis (Snout); 3, Hypena rostralis (Buttoned Snout); 4, Hypena crassalis (Beautiful Snout. 4, Schrankia taenialis (White-line Snout); 6, Schrankia costaestrigalis (Pinion-streaked Snout). 7, Hypenodes humidalis (Marsh Oblique-barred). HERMINIINAE. 8, Trisateles emortualis (Olive Crescent). 10, Paracolax tristalis (Clay Fan-foot). 11, Polypogon (Pechipogo) strigulata (Common Fan-foot). 12, Polypogon (Zanclognatha) tarsipennalis (The Fan-foot). Leech, 1886. • P. grisealis (Small Fan-foot, = Herminia), with Macrochilo and Laspeyria: Leech, 1886. NOCTUIDAE-HERMINIINAE. 1, Polypogon (Herminia) grisealis Small Fan-foot). 2, Macrochilo cribrumalis (Dotted Fan-foot). NOCTUIDAE-RIVULINAE. 3, Laspeyria flexula (Beautiful Hook-tip). From Leech, 1886. • British Hypeninae (Fan-foot Moths 1, Swain). 1(a) and (b), Polypogon tarsipennalis (The Fan-foot); 2(a) and (b), Polypogon nemoralis (Small Fan-foot); 3(a) and (b), Macrochilo cribrumalis (Dotted Fan-foot); 4, Paracolax tristalis (Clay Fan-foot); 5, Trisateles emortualis (Olive Crescent); 6(a) and (b), Polypogon strigilata (Common Fan-foot). Swain, 1961. • Ophiderinae and Hypeninae: Kirby. OPHIDERINAE. 1, Laspeyria flexula (Beautiful Hook-tip); 2, Parascotia fuliginaria (Waved Black); 5, Colobochyla salicalis (Lesser Belle). HYPENINAE. 3, Polypogon nemoralis (Small Fan-foot); 4, Polypogon tarsicrinalis (Fan-foot); 6, Polypogon tentacularia; 7, Polypogon strigilata (Common Fan-foot); 8, Hypena crassalis (Beautiful Snout); 9, Hypena proboscidalis (Snout); 10, Hypena obesalis (Paignton Snout). From Kirby (44).
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Cite this publication as: ‘Watson, L., and Dallwitz, M.J. 2003 onwards. Insects of Britain and Ireland: the genera of Lepidoptera-Noctuidae. Version: 14th February 2021. delta-intkey.com’.
