Pechipogo strigilata

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.

[2] Its forewings are 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.

Larvae are 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.

Figs. 6 larva after hibernation on birch catkins 6a enlargement of two segments