Slender Pug

Taxobox
name = Slender Pug
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
ordo = Lepidoptera
familia = Geometridae
genus = "Eupithecia"
species = "E. tenuiata"
binomial = "Eupithecia tenuiata"
binomial_authority = Hübner, 1813The Slender Pug "(Eupithecia tenuiata)" is a moth of the family Geometridae. It is found throughout Europe and the Near East, in habitats favoured by its food plant.

This is one of the smallest of the Geometrids with a wingspan of only 14-16 mm. Its size is the main identifying feature as it is otherwise rather nondescript, brown with faint paler markings and a tiny black discal spot on each wing. As the common name suggests, the wings are narrow, even for a pug. The species flies at night in June and July ref|flight_season and will come to light.

The larva feeds on the catkins of willow and the species overwinters as an egg.

#Note|flight_season"The flight season refers to the British Isles. This may vary in other parts of the range."

References

*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