Piniphila Falkovitsh
Type species: expeditana Sneffen
DIAGNOSIS
External characters:
Venation:
Forewing: All veins separate; chorda originating equidistant from R 2 and R 3, extending to R 5; median stem to base of M 2.
Hindwing: All veins separate.
Forewing shape and markings:
Piniphila bifasciana adults
Termen oblique; forewing striated with greyish-ochreous and with well-defined greyish median fascia.
Additional characters:
Posterior tibia with pencil of scent scales; hindwing with anal fold.
Genitalia:
Male:
male genitalia P. bifasciana
Valva elongated, narrow in apical half, with four to five long spinescent setae in tuft near base of cucullus. Remaining cover consists of piliform bristles. Vesica of aedeagus with cluster of long cornuti and one short, flat seta. Uncus small. Socii broad, short, with short piliform bristles.
Female:
female genitalia P. bifasciana
Sterigma a collar-like structure, with membranous lateral parts. Antrum long, broad up to inception of ductus seminalis. Signum small, scobinate, concave.
Early stages:
Swatschek, 1958, provides a diagnosis for the larvae of Piniphila bifasciana (as Endothenia bifasciana).
Basal ring of seta SD1 not smaller than spiracle on A1-2; SD2 clearly separated from SD pinaculum on A8; SV group bisetose on A7; D1 and SD1 on separate pinacula on A9.
Biology:
Larvae feed in the young shoots and amongst the male blossom of Pinus (after some authors also on Vaccinium, Rhododendron etc.). One generation yearly.
Distribution:
Palaearctic Region.