Lomographa bimaculata caterpillars feed on "Prunus" species – including bird cherry ("Prunus padus") and blackthorn ("Prunus spinosa") – as well as on hawthorns ("Crataegus"). Junior synonyms of the white-pinion spotted include: Lomographa bimaculata Lomographa bimaculata, the white-pinion spotted, is a species of geometer moth (family Geometridae). It belongs to the large geometer moth subfamily Ennominae, and therein to the tribe Baptini. It is – under its junior synonym – the type species of its genus "Lomographa". It is also (under its original name "Phalaena bimaculata") the type species of "Bapta", a junior objective synonym of "Lomographa" and the namesake of the Baptini.
Prunus avium parent species of "Prunus cerasus" (sour cherry), by way of ancient crosses between it and "Prunus fruticosa" (dwarf cherry) in the areas where the two species overlap. All three species can breed with one another. "Prunus cerasus" is now a species in its own right, having developed beyond a hybrid and stabilised. Pliny distinguishes between "Prunus", the plum fruit, and "Cerasus", the cherry fruit. Already in Pliny quite a number of cultivars are cited, some possibly species or varieties, Aproniana, Lutatia, Caeciliana, and so on. Pliny grades them by flavour, including dulcis ("sweet") and acer ("sharp"). and goes so far