More Pugs

Lime-speck Pug, Eupithecia centaureata. Jubilee Country Park, 2 June 2012.

More Pugs!  Starting with this easily recogniseable Lime-speck Pug from Jubilee Country Park.  The white wings with a dark fleck are unmistakeable.

White-spotted Pug, Eupithecia tripunctaria.  Hayes, 10 May 2017.

I had a couple of these White-spotted Pugs in my garden trap in Hayes this year.  They look a lot like the hard-to-identify pugs in my last post, but they have a white fleck on top of their thorax and if I remember to look for that, I know what I am seeing.

Tawny Speckled Pug, Eupithecia icterata subfulvata.  Cuckoo Wood, High Elms, 12 August 2015.

A few times, I have had the opportunity to run my trap in Cuckoo Wood, High Elms while a group are doing a glow-worm survey.  This Tawny Speckled Pug turned up in 2015.  You can't mistake this one.

Cypress Pug, Eupithecia phoeniceata.  Hayes, 31 August 2015.

 Nor this, a Cypress Pug, with a wider and narrower wing profile and a marbled patterning.

Finally, a couple of green pugs.

Green Pug, Pasiphila rectangulata.  Luxford Lane, Crowborough, 14 June 2017.

In fact, this one is called the Green Pug.  The colour fades in older specimens, but the broad wingspread is still recognisable.  And it is generally a darker colour than this next one.

V-pug, Chloroclystis v-ata.  Luxford Lane, Crowborough, 19 June 2017.

Finally, the V-pug, one of those creatures which has an initial as part of its scientific name.  The V on the wings is easily recognisable ..

V-pug, Chloroclystis v-ata.  Luxford Lane, Crowborough, 5 July 2017.

.. If you can see it, because sometimes it prefers to rest like this, with wings up.  But that's a giveaway too.

So, I have covered some of the many pugs in these two posts.  No doubt I will encounter even more of these tricky specimens.  Learning continues ...