#2734 · 🦋 butterflies & moths
The Fan-foot
🇳🇱 Lijnsnuituil ·Herminia tarsipennalis
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what is it?
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.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- Spotted 57 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 3,562 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- English
- The Fan-foot
- Nederlands
- Lijnsnuituil
- scientific name
- Herminia tarsipennalis
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Lepidoptera
- family
- Erebidae
- sightings in NL
- 57
- sightings in Europe
- 2,688
- sightings worldwide
- 3,562
- GBIF records in NL
- 7,667
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
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Sources: iNaturalist taxon 468006, Wikidata Q17679558, GBIF 5113234, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.