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Summary Data

Season (Adult / Immature):

National Status: Common

Local Status: Rare and very local resident.

Local Record: Grade 3   See here for explanation

Flight time: Probably just the one generation, May-Aug, peak in Jul.

Forewing: 10-12mm

Foodplant: Ash, Hawthorn, Blackthorn and Elder.

Regional breakdown:

 VC61VC62VC63VC64VC65
Year first recorded19042006185718831904
Year last recorded20132011201320142010
Number of records473361852
Number of individuals352243871
Unique positions17227352
Unique locations17229392
Adult records443271772
Immature records20020

For the county, we have a total of 273 records from 89 sites. First recorded in 1857.
 

Photos

70.169 Ash Pug 02 (conf. Brian Hancock)
© Andy Nunn
70.169 Ash Pug 01
© Paul Millard, gen det CHF

Species Account

Similar species: See Angle-barred Pug for distribution. John Langmaid (in corres., 2013) advises that in the forthcoming check-list that Ash Pug will be treated as Angle-barred Pug E. innotata (Hufnagel) but with a note that 'opinions differ'.

Sutton & Beaumont, 1989: The distribution of this pug has changed very little over the past twenty years. There is still one coastal colony, where it was originally known as E. innotata (Hufnagel) (see comment in YNU, 1970), feeding on sea buckthorn, and a few inland ash-feeding colonies.

Argus 52, 2006:
VC62. Harwood Dale Forest, 27.6.2006 (ASE). NEW VICE-COUNTY RECORD.

2012 (CHF): The true ash-feeding form (Ash Pug) is commonest in the western Dales though it can turn up elsewhere. Sometimes misidentified - take care if recording this species away from the coast or the Dales.

See Angle-barred Pug
 

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