Dodomeira caoduroi, 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 : 49

Dodomeira caoduroi species group (2)

( Figures 41f, 41g)

Diagnosis. A Dodomeira group of relatively large sized species (length: 3.70–4.55 mm.) with slender (length/ width ratio: 1.66–1.78), sub-parallel elytra and body shape sub-cylindrical. Rostrum with epistome at raised plate. Mesorostrum with clavate and golden setae. Antenna with length scape/length funicle ratio 0.72–0.74. Pronotum transverse or quite sub-square (length 0.75–0.95 mm, width 0.90–1.10) with length/width ratio 0.83–0.95. Elytra clothed by imbricate brownish-silvery scales, clavate or widened on elytra and elytral declivity; recumbent (15°– 30°) or raised (30°–45°) on sides.

Distribution. The species of this group are present in Nebrodi Mountains and Bonifato Mount ( Fig. 140).

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

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