49.332 Cydia coniferana (Pine-bark Piercer)
ws: 10-14mm; May-Aug; Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris); NS-B pine woodland throughout GB
Cydia coniferana §1 female
ID: Similar to C.cognatana (confined to Scottish Highlands) from which it cannot be reliably distinguished on external features. C.cosmophorana has solid white marks whereas the white markings of C.coniferana are each more or less divided by a brown line. C.conicolana lacks a medio-dorsal blotch.
Female genitalia: BTM provides drawings of this and similar species and of those species mentioned above all but C.cognatana are shown at dissection group. C.coniferana is readily distinguished by the tripartite ventral plate of abdominal S8; the characteristically shaped plate with its paired lacunae posterior to the ostium and the exact pattern of sclerotisation of the posterior section of the ductus bursae.
Note that §1 has a ws ~ 15.2mm which is larger than the quoted size range.
Female genitalia: BTM provides drawings of this and similar species and of those species mentioned above all but C.cognatana are shown at dissection group. C.coniferana is readily distinguished by the tripartite ventral plate of abdominal S8; the characteristically shaped plate with its paired lacunae posterior to the ostium and the exact pattern of sclerotisation of the posterior section of the ductus bursae.
Note that §1 has a ws ~ 15.2mm which is larger than the quoted size range.
Dissection
DIssection
Female genitalia
§1 Nethybridge, Inverness-shire; 12/07/2011; female; fw 7.1mm
All images © Chris Lewis
All images © Chris Lewis
Page published 09/02/2013 (§1)
