The goldenrod pug (Eupithecia virgaureata) is a moth of the family Geometridae.

The ground colour of the forewings is pale grey brownish or fuscous, occasionally with an ochreous tinge, darker along the costa, and are marked with distinctive pale fascia and a whitish tornal spot.

The forewing patterning is dominated by a conspicuous, dark discal and smaller costal spots.

The obtusely angulated dark grey striae are not defined except on the costa.

Two broods are produced each year with the moths flying in May and June and again in August.aestiva Dietze, the summer generation, is considerably smaller.