Status
.....Certainly one of Nottinghamshire's rarest Pugs and
traditionally known from just a single Nottinghamshire location at Beacon Hill Road in Newark.
The only recent records include three to MV light at Beacon Hill Road in Newark on July 3rd 2009
(Wright, S. Osborne, J. and Atkinson, D.R.)
which were the first since 1999), a single at Broadholme on June 6th 2014
(Gray, M.) and one trapped at Mansfield on July 17th
(Beasley, N.). Grateful thanks go to
Nigel Beasley for kindly providing me with the Mansfield specimen.
A note on
Broadholme records: Broadholme
is in vice county VC56 of Nottinghamshire (which is covered by
www.eakringbirds.com), but not in the administrative county of
Nottinghamshire on which the county's moth records are based by
the county macromoth recorder. As such, no Broadholme records appear in
any county reports, but they are officially recognised by Butterfly
Conservation as being Nottinghamshire records. |
