Red List: Least Concern (LC). GB Status: Common

Identification

Usually distinctive. Care required, potential confusion with Narrow-winged Pug.

Recording method

Attracted to light.

Life cycle

Two generations. Overwinters as a pupa. Larvae a mid-June to late July and for the second generation late August and September. Pupates under moss or bark close to then foodplant, or in loose earth.

Larval foodplants

Ash, bBuckthorn, hawthorns, and Elder.

Habitat

Woodland, hedgerows and parkland.

History

First recorded for Dumfries and Galloway in 1862 for VC73 at Dalskairth by Lennon, in 1940 for VC72 at Kilmahoe by Duncan.