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Distribution

Summary Data

Season (Adult / Immature):

National Status: Common

Local Status: Uncommon and fairly widespread resident.

Local Record: Grade 2 See here for explanation

Flight time: One generation, May-Jun.

Forewing: 10-12mm.

Foodplant: Foxglove.

IMPORTANT - Please note that the maps and accounts are provisional, subject to change and further update. The whole dataset still needs to go through the final verification process and it is likely that a very small number of records will not satisfy the present requirements and there are other records that have not been formally submitted. The information is for guidance only.

Record breakdown:

	VC9	VC11	Region
Year first recorded	1959	1985	1959
Year last recorded	2011	2011	2011
Number of records	817	60	1754
Number of individuals	1378	101	2958
Unique positions	184	15	398
Unique locations	139	11	300
Adult records	759	59	1636
Immature records	0	0	0

For the region, we have a total of 1754 records from 300 sites. Earliest record on file is in 1959.

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Species Account

Similar species: 1816 Toadflax Pug Eupithecia linariata. For further information refer UK Moths.

Davey, P., 2009: A species with a general distribution across Britain, the larva feeding on the stamens of the flowers of foxglove (Digitalis purpurea). In Dorset, the moth is common and can be abundant where foxglove grows in large numbers in cleared woodland, old hedgebanks, sheltered grassland, especially on well-drained acid soils. The national norm is for a single brood in May and June, but in Dorset adults are observed on many occasions in July and well into August, for example at Arne, far from Toadflax Pug¹⁸¹⁶ territory. Abroad, the Foxglove Pug is univoltine, as in the UK, but subspecies intermedia, a whiter and more variegated form, is on the wing between late May and late July. Further research is needed to ascertain whether late-date moths turn out to be this sub-species.

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