Identification
The pale patch with the typically weak discal spot and the wedge-shaped projections pointing inwards as well help to identify it. Care needed in separating from other ‘pugs.’
Recording method
Flies from dusk in early spring, comes to light.
Life cycle
One generation. Overwinters as a pupa. Larvae are present during June and July.
Larval foodplants
Pedunculate Oak, Sessile Oak and Hawthorn.
Habitat
Oak woodland, but also hedgerows and gardens in well-wooded areas.
History
First found for Dumfries and Galloway in 1862 for VC72 near the Craigs, Dumfries by Lennon, in 1911 for VC74 at Corsemalzie by Gordon who found it ‘common flying at dusk around sallows on the moors’ and in 1942 for VC73 near Gatehouse of Fleet by Russell.