# Common pug > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Common_pug > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Common_pug.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_pug > Source revision: 1276541825 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) The **common pug** (***Eupithecia vulgata***) is a [moth](/source/Moth) of the family [Geometridae](/source/Geometridae). It is a common species across the [Palearctic](/source/Palearctic) region, including the [Near East](/source/Near_East) and North [Africa](/source/Africa). It ranges from the Atlantic coast of [Ireland](/source/Ireland) and [Portugal](/source/Portugal) across Europe, the Middle East and Central Asia to the [Russian Far East](/source/Russian_Far_East) (Priamurje) and [Korea](/source/Korea).[2] ## Description The [wingspan](/source/Wingspan) is 18–21 mm. The ground colour of the forewings is very variable – brown to [fuscous](/source/Fuscous), with a reddish tinge, ochreous, or whitish. The darker fuscous striae are angulated and the postmedian line is biangulate. The posterior edge of the median band is marked with black, the subterminal line is interrupted into whitish dots and a small white tornal mark. The forewings have either a minute dark discal mark or are without a discal mark. Forewings with a crescentic pale tornal stain. The hindwings are similar to the forewings but less conspicuously patterned.[3] See also Prout.[4][5][6] [7] The larva is naked, long and slender, greyish green or light brown, on its back with a variety of rhomboid, darker spots. The reddish brown pupa has olive green wing sheaths. At the pointed cremaster there are eight hook bristles.[citation needed] Two broods are produced each year with adults on the wing in May and June and again in August. The species flies at night and is attracted to light. It colonizes a variety of different habitats, such as forest edges, bushes, hedges, embankments and [plant corridors](/source/Wildlife_corridor) as well as gardens and parks. The occurrence in the Alps reaches up to 1500 meters. [citation needed] The [larvae](/source/Larva) feed on a variety of plants (see list below). The species overwinters as a [pupa](/source/Pupa). ## Larval food plants - *[Achillea](/source/Achillea)* – yarrow - *[Artemisia](/source/Artemisia_(plant))* - *[Campanula](/source/Campanula)* – harebell - *[Centaurea](/source/Centaurea)* - *[Crataegus](/source/Crataegus)* – hawthorn - *[Galium](/source/Galium)* – bedstraw - *[Salix](/source/Salix)* – willow - *[Senecio](/source/Senecio)* – ragwort - *[Solidago](/source/Solidago)* – goldenrod - *[Vaccinium](/source/Vaccinium)* – bilberry ## Subspecies - *Eupithecia vulgata vulgata* - *Eupithecia vulgata clarensis* Huggins, 1962 Ireland - *Eupithecia vulgata lepsaria* Staudinger, 1882 Kazakhstan - *Eupithecia vulgata scotica* Cockayne, 1951 Scotland ## References 1. Yu, Dicky Sick Ki. ["*Eupithecia vulgata* (Haworth 1809)"](http://www.taxapad.com/local.php?taxonidLC=82855576). *Home of Ichneumonoidea*. Taxapad. [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20160324233147/http://www.taxapad.com/local.php?taxonidLC=82855576) 24 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine. 1. , 2012: Eupithecia Curtis, 1825 of Afghanistan (Geometridae: Larentiinae). *Nota Lepidopterologica* **35 (2)**: 197-231. Full article: ["Archived copy"](https://web.archive.org/web/20140811174502/http://www.soceurlep.eu/tl_files/nota/bd35_2/09_Mironov.pdf). Archived from [the original](http://www.soceurlep.eu/tl_files/nota/bd35_2/09_Mironov.pdf) on 2014-08-11. Retrieved 2014-08-11.. 1. [*Eupithecia vulgata* full description](http://delta-intkey.com/britin/pug/www/vulgata.htm) Watson, L., and Dallwitz, M.J. 2003 onwards. British insects: the genera of Lepidoptera-Geometridae. Version: 29 December 2011 1. Prout, L. B. (1912–16). Geometridae. In A. Seitz (ed.) *The Macrolepidoptera of the World*. The Palaearctic Geometridae, 4. 479 pp. Alfred Kernen, Stuttgart.[pdf](https://archive.org/details/macrolepidoptera1216seit) 1. Vladimir Mironov: The Geometrid Moths of the World. In: Axel Hausmann (Hrsg.): *The Geometrid Moths of Europe*. 1. Auflage. Volume 4: Larentiinae II. Perizomini and Eupitheciini. Apollo Books, Stenstrup 2003, ISBN 87-88757-40-4 1. Riley, A.M. and Prior, G. *British and Irish Pug Moths A Guide to their Identification and Biology* Apollo Books, ISBN 978-0-946589-51-7 1. [The Moths of the British Isles Second Series/Chapter 9#230](https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Moths_of_the_British_Isles_Second_Series%2FChapter_9) - Chinery, Michael *Collins Guide to the Insects of Britain and Western Europe* 1986 (Reprinted 1991) - Skinner, Bernard *Colour Identification Guide to Moths of the British Isles* 1984 ## External links - [Lepiforum.de](http://www.lepiforum.de/lepiwiki.pl?Eupithecia_Vulgata) - [UKmoths](https://www.ukmoths.org.uk/species/eupithecia-vulgata/) --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Common pug](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_pug) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_pug?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.