First found in the UK back in the 1930's, this fairly distinctive Pug
has steadily increased it's range and first appeared in Nottinghamshire
back in 2008, when recorded by Martin Gray at Broadholme on July 26th
2008. Martin recorded a second example on August 1st 2013 and it has
most recently been recorded by Nigel Beasley on two occasions in
Mansfield on July 23rd 2020 and again on more recently on July 7th 2021.
Grateful thanks go to Nigel, for kindly bringing over the specimen below
for photographing.
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. |
