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Consignata Borkhausen, consignaria Boisduval
The Pinion-spotted Pug.
Adults. Thorax brown, with a white central stripe. Posterior tibiae of males 4-spurred. Wingspan 22–24 mm. Forewings distinctly elongate; the outer margin convexly curved; the costa arched.
Forewings at least towards the costa relatively conspicuously patterned; pale grey, greyish-ochreous or greyish-whitish, with a conspicuous dark anterior-basal patch and dark costal marks; the veins partly blackish; two pairs of blackish-edged whitish sinuate striae limiting the median band, the second posteriorly ferrugineous-edged; a ferrugineous-brown costal blotch before the first pair and another beyond the second, and between them three brown median striae ending in a dark fuscous costal suffusion. Forewings with a dark discal mark (this large, touching the dark fuscous costal suffusion). The discal mark shortly elongate; black and distinct. Forewing fringes conspicuously chequered.
Hindwings whitish-grey, with two pale grey posterior striae; patterned similarly to the forewings to less conspicuously patterned than the forewings; conspicuously patterned to rather plain; weakly dorsally and postmedianly transversely striated; with a clear discal mark to without a clear discal mark (this pale grey or indistinct); the fringes conspicuously chequered.
The abdomen dark fuscous, plain; neither ringed nor banded nor white-based; laterally neither black-streaked nor black-spotted.
Genitalia. The male abdominal plate in the form of a single sclerotized patch with a pair of apical extensions. The bursa copulatrix with ornamentation conspicuously restricted in distribution; conspicuously spiny.
Early stages, ecology. Botanically specialised. Foodplants woody-dicotyledonous; Rosaceae. The larvae found on apple and hawthorn; feeding on flowers and leafy shoots.
Months of appearance, distribution. Adults abroad May and June; larvae found June, July, and August. South-east England, Central-southern England, South-west England, and English Midlands (southern England and Norfolk).
Special key characters. Forewings without a postmedian line bearing arrow-like markings. Hindwings whitish, or pale grey.
Illustrations. • E. insigniata (Pinion-spotted Pug), with larva: Barrett. Eupithecia insigniata. 2, malel; 2a, female;2b, larva. From Barrett, plate 481. • E. insigniata (Pinion-spotted Pug), with other Pugs: South. • E. insigniata (Pinion-spotted Pug), with other Pugs: Swain. 1, Eupithecia tenuiata (Slender Pug); 2, E. inturbata (Maple Pug); 3, E. haworthiata (Haworth's Pug); 4, E. plumbeolata (Lead-coloured Pug); 5, E. irriguata (Marbled Pug); 6, E. exiguata (Mottled Pug); 7a & 7b, E. abietaria (Cloaked Pug); 8, E. pygmaeata (Marsh Pug); 9, E. linariata (Toadflax Pug); 10a-c, E. pulchellata (Foxglove Pug); 11, E. insignata (Pinion-spotted Pug); 12, E. valerianata (Valerian Pug). From Swain, 1961. • E. insigniata (Pinion-spotted Pug), with other Pugs. 1, Eupithecia succenturiata (Bordered Pug); 2, E. exiguata (Mottled Pug); 3, E. haworthiata (Haworth's Pug); 4, E. insigniata (Pinion-spotted Pug); 5, E. expallidata (Bleached Pug). Adapted from Swain (1961). • E. insigniata (Pinion-spotted Pug), with other Pugs: Newman. 1, Eupithecia inturbata (Maple Pug); 2, E. haworthiata (Haworth's Pug); 3. E. plumbeolata (Lead-coloured Pug); 4, E. linariata (Toadflax Pug); 5, E. pulchellata (Foxglove Pug); E. irriguata (Marbled Pug); 7, E. exiguata (Mottled Pug); 8, E. insigniata (Pinion-spotted Pug); 9, E. pygmaeata (Marsh Pug); 10, E. venosata venosata (Netted Pug); 11, E. trisignaria (Triple-spotted Pug); 12, E. cauchiata (Guenee's Pug); 13, E. abietaria (Cloaked Pug); 14, E. expallidata (Bleached Pug); 15, E. subfuscata (Grey Pug); 16, E. subumbrata (Shaded Pug); 17, E. simpliciata (Plain Pug); 18, E. virgaureata (Golden-rod Pug); 19, E. abbreviata (Brindled Pug); 20, E. pusillata pusillata (Juniper Pug); 21, E. centaureata (Lime-speck Pug); 22, Chloroclystis v-ata (V-Pug); 23, Anticollix sparsata (Dentated Pug). From Newman (1869).
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