Yorkshire Status: Common and widespread resident.

This widespread polyphagous species is doing very well across the county. It appears to have three broods in Yorkshire and is one of a small number of species which has been recorded in every month of the year. A Pug seen "out of season" often turns out to be this species. The Atlas tells us that both abundance and distribution have increased considerably in recent years across the country. This is quite a different situation from Porritt's time where he only knew it from three sites, and it was still uncommon when Sutton and Beaumont was written. Despite it being common, counts are nearly always in single figures. This is a fairly easy Pug to identify, often quite strikingly marked and a slightly different shape to other Pugs, in fact it belongs in a genus of its own.

Sutton & Beaumont, 1989: Widely distributed but not common.

Recorded in 144 (72%) of 200 10k Squares.
First Recorded in 1857.
Last Recorded in 2024.
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