Eupithecia pimpinellata

Eupithecia pimpinellata, the pimpinel pug, is a moth of the family Geometridae.

It is known from most of Europe to Morocco (High Atlas), Siberia, Kyrgyzstan, Altai, Mongolia.It primarily colonizes bushy places, forest edges, clearings, hedges, mountain slopes, embankments, railway dams and parks as well as semi-dry grasslands.

[3] [4][5] [6]There are forms of the long and slender larva which is either greenish with yellow segment incisions or almost monochrome red.

On the dark brown cremaster there are eight hook bristles, the middle pair of which is strongly formed.

There is one generation per year with adults on wing from the end of June to August.

Larva Cors Goch, North Wales, Sept 2016