Pycnogaster jugicola Graells, 1851

Habitat:
Pycnogaster jugicola inhabits dry mountain slopes, usually with well developed layer of dwarf shrubs, especially junipers, but also broom. It is found up to 2200m (e.g. Peñalara).

Life cycle:
The adults appear between May and July/August, in hight altitudes even far into October. I observed several males singing in the upper zones of creeping juniper bushes in the bright sunshine around 2000m in the Peñalara mountains (Madrid) in mid-October 2021.

Remarks:
Pycnogaster jugicola occurs in the central Iberian Peninsula in a broad stripe reaching from central Portugal in the west across Madrid to the Mediterranean Sea near Castellon in the east. It is also found in parts of the Sierra de Albarracin near Teruel.