Eupithecia pulchellata
In 3 days ~30% in a week ~60%
The foxglove pug (Eupithecia pulchellata) is a moth of the family Geometridae found in Europe. It was described by the English entomologist James Francis Stephens in 1831. The wingspan is 18–22 mm and the species is quite colourful for the genus, with alternating bands of dark brown and buffish orange on the forewings. In some races the buff bands can be very pale. There are dark crosslines. The ground colour of the forewings is yellow-red and shows a broad dark grey to dark brown, lightly edged central band, from which a black central spot hardly stands out. There are dark areas at the margin. The hind wings are slightly lighter than the forewings, have a darkened fringing edge and show a small black central spot.(The forewing is, from the inside outwards, coloured as follows: at the base dark grey, then a broad, ochre-yellow transverse band, then an even-broad, white-edged, dark grey transverse band, then whitish-yellow, then an irregular, brownish ochre-yellow transverse band (usually somewhat darker in colour than that further inside the wing), then a white zigzag transverse stripe and outermost grey.)
It flies at night in May and June and is attracted to light... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Snowdonia National Park | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom |
More parks will be added in future updates.
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Liverpool | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom | |
| 2 | Porto | 🇵🇹 Portugal | |
| 3 | Birmingham | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom | |
| 4 | London | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Foxglove Pug sighting in Snowdonia National Park on a given day, based on 14 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 149th most-seen of the 387 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 30%, and over a week to about 60%, if each day is a fresh chance.
June
In that month about 30% of wildlife watchers report a Foxglove Pug in Snowdonia National Park on a given day, against under 5% in August to March, the lowest months.
Between 6 and 9 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Foxglove Pug sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Snowdonia National Park, in our data
Snowdonia National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Foxglove Pug sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same genus: Eupithecia
The closest relatives of the Foxglove Pug that you can see in Snowdonia National Park (genus Eupithecia, Pug Moths) are Brindled Pug (about 10%) and Golden-Rod Pug (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Foxglove Pug is recorded against all the insects logged in Snowdonia National Park (14 verified sightings from 2019 to 2026), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
