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  Cypress Pug Eupithecia phoeniceata  
         
 

B&F: 1855

ABH: 70.159

Status: Unknown

Distribution and Abundance: Rare

Flight Period: September

Records: 11 September 2013, Kingsthorpe (P. Sharpe); 07 September 2016, Old Stratford (A. Harding)

Observations: The first county record for this species was recorded in an m.v. light trap in a Kingsthorpe garden in Northampton. Nationally the species was first recorded in Cornwall in 1959. It is now well established in parts of southern England and is known to be spreading northwards.

First Record: 2013, Sharpe.