- Large, thick-set, pug
- Warm grey/brown colouration
- Broad abdomen with thick dark belt
- Large, conspicuous discal spot (elongated oval)
- Numerous faint cross lines – kinked in beyond discal spot to leading edge
- Leading edge wing = fairly straight
- No (rarely) any distinctive submarginal (outer edge) line
- No white tornal spot on wing
Confusion species: Common Pug, Grey Pug
Range: Widely distributed from southern England and south
Wales, northwards as far as the Lothians in southern Scotland. The
two races (Freyer's and edinburgh) appear to have formed a hybrid zone.Habitat: Freyer's Pug is very much a suburban moth of parks and gardens, associated with non-native leylandii and cupressus hedges.
Freyer's Pug at UK Moths:
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| Freyer's Pug, 28/6/12, Warburgh Reserve BBOWT, Oxon, The Bald Birder |
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| Freyer's Pug, Boughton-under-Blean, Kent, Pete Maton |
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| Freyer's Pug, 15/6/10, Langdon, John Bebbington Please visit the Permalink |
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| Freyer's Pug, 6/6/10, Didcot, Oxon, The Bald Birder |
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| Freyer's Pug, 26/6/10, Didcot, Oxon, The Bald Birder |
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| Freyer's Pug, 28/6/10, Didcot, Oxon, The Bald Birder |
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| Freyer's Pug, 27/6/13, Barming, Kent, The Bald Birder |
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