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a. A collectors' name for a moth of the family Hypeninæ.
b. A gecko of the genus Ptyodactylus, having fan-shaped toes; also called fan-footed gecko.
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1832 J. Rennie Conspectus Butterflies & Moths Brit. 146 Polypogon..The Common Fan-foot..The Clay Fan-foot.
1863 W. Houghton in W. Smith Dict. Bible II. 127/1 The Fan-Foot Lizard (Ptyodactylus Gecko).
1933 Proc. Zool. Soc. ii. 764 The Fan-foot is abundant and distributed widely in Palestine.
1933 Proc. Zool. Soc. ii. 765 A Fan-footed Gecko brought in from the desert was turned loose in my room.
1961 R. South Moths Brit. Isles (ed. 2) I. 393 The fan-foot (Zanclognatha tarsipennalis Treit.).
1961 R. South Moths Brit. Isles (ed. 2) I. 394 The small fan-foot (Zanclognatha nemoralis Fab.).
1961 R. South Moths Brit. Isles (ed. 2) I. 395 The dotted fan-foot (Zanclognatha cribrumalis Hübn.). The clay fan-foot (Paracolax derivalis Hübn.).
1961 R. South Moths Brit. Isles (ed. 2) I. 396 The common fan-foot (Herminia barbalis Clerck).
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online June 2012).
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