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National Status: Common

Local Status: Uncommon and widespread resident.

Local Record: Grade 1 See here for explanation

Flight time: One generation, Mar-May.

Forewing: 10-12mm.

Foodplant: Pedunculate Oak and Sessile Oak. Hawthorns.

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	VC5	VC11	Region
Year first recorded	1959	2007	1986	1959
Year last recorded	2011	2010	2011	2011
Number of records	887	2	166	2110
Number of individuals	2691	31	313	6070
Unique positions	172	2	14	376
Unique locations	133	2	14	298
Adult records	847	2	163	2024
Immature records	1	0	1	4

For the region, we have a total of 2110 records from 298 sites. Earliest record on file is in 1959.

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Species Account

Similar species: 1853 Eupithecia dodoneata (Oak-tree Pug).

For further information refer UK Moths.

Davey, P., 2009: A common species in Britain, the larva feeding on oak (Quercus spp.). In Dorset, the moth is common wherever oak grows, particularly so in old woods. The species is notably frequent in districts where mature hawthorn (Crataegus monogyna) occurs such as at Gaunts Common and at Merley, and this may well be an alternative foodplant for the species as it is on the Continent.

The Brindled Pug is one of the earliest 'brown' Pugs to be on the wing, and, apart from the Oak-tree Pug¹⁸⁵³, which is smaller, is unlikely to be confused with any other species.

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