Dodomeira maritimaensis, Baviera, 2017

Baviera, Cosimo, 2017, A taxonomic monograph of the genus Dodomeira Bellò & Baviera, a new genus of Peritelini from Sicily (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Entiminae), Zootaxa 4334 (1), pp. 1-138 : 73

Dodomeira maritimaensis species group (1)

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Diagnosis. A Dodomeira group of medium-large sized species (length: 3.90–4.35 mm.) with slender body (length/ width ratio: 1.70–1.75), elongate and cylindrical elytra. Rostrum with epistome inconspicuous. Mesorostrum with thin and golden setae. Antenna with length scape/length funicle ratio 0.70–0.69. Pronotum transverse (length 0.80– 0.95 mm, width 0.90–1.00) with length/width ratio 0.89–0.95. Elytra clothed by imbricate earth brown scales here and there paler, with setae thin, slightly widened apex, erect (75°–90°).

Distribution. The only species belonging to this group is known from western Sicily in Marettimo Island (Egadi Islands).

Main soil type. Chromic-Luvisol (European Soil Data Centre; Panagos et al. 2012).

Reproduction. To date, species are parthenogenetic or probably parthenogenetic.

Figures

FIGURES 42 a – 42 h. Facies of Dodomeira exigua species group: 42 a— D. exigua (Stierlin, 1861) ♂ topotype; 42 b— D. himerensis (Bellò & Baviera, 2011) ♂ paratype; 42 c— D. trinacriae (Bellò & Baviera, 2011) ♂ paratype; 42 d—D. genistae Bellò & Baviera sp. n. ♂ holotype; 42 e— D. margheritae Bellò & Baviera sp. n. ♂ paratype. Facies of Dodomeira ficuzzensis species group: 42 f— D. ficuzzensis (Bellò & Baviera, 2011) ♀ holotype; 42 f— D. silvanae Bellò & Baviera sp. n. ♀ holotype. Facies of Dodomeira maritimaensis species group: 42 h— D. maritimaensis Bellò & Baviera sp. n. ♀ holotype.