Miarus ajugae (Herbst, 1795)

Skuhrovec, Jiri, Gosik, Rafal, Caldara, Roberto, Tosevski, Ivo, Letowski, Jacek & Szwaj, Ewelina, 2018, Morphological characters of immature stages of Palaearctic species of Cleopomiarus and Miarus and their systematic value in Mecinini (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Curculioninae), ZooKeys 808, pp. 23-92 : 71-72

Miarus ajugae (Herbst, 1795) Figures 101, 102-104

Material examined.

12 specimens: 2 ♂, 1 ♀, 24.08.2009, Ciechanki, CE Poland, leg. E. Szwaj, det. J. Łętowski; 3 ♂, 2 ♀, 30.06.2017, ex galls on capsules of Adenophora liliifolia , 30.06.2017, Kaludjerske Bare, Mt. Tara, Central Serbia, leg. I. Toševski, det. R. Caldara; 3 ♂, 1 ♀, ex galls on capsules of Campanula bononiensis , 14.07.2017, Zavojsko jezero, Pirot, east Serbia, leg. I. Toševski, det. R. Caldara.

Description.

Measurements (in mm). Body length: 3.20-4.00 (mean 3.40). Body width: 1.90-2.70 (mean 2.10). Head width: 0.65-0.70 (mean 0.65).

Body rather stout (Figs 101-104). Rostrum moderately elongated, approximately 3.5 times as long as wide, reached almost up to metacoxae. Antennae rather stout and moderately elongated. Pronotum 2.5 times as wide as long. Urogomphi (ur) slender and elongated (Figs 102-104).

Chaetotaxy: setae piliform, greyish to dark brown, different in length, short to medium size. Head capsule with one vs, one sos, and four os of different length (fourth placed on eye spots). Rostrum with one pas, and three rs (rs1 and rs2 placed medially, rs3 more apically) and one es (Figs 102, 103). Pronotum with: two as, two ds, one ls, two sls, and three pls (Figs 103, 104). All setae of prothorax equal in length (Fig. 104). Dorsal parts of meso- and metathorax with three setae placed medially. Apex of each femora with one fes (Figs 102, 103). Abdominal segments I–VIII with two setae laterally and four medium long setae ventrally. Dorsal parts of abdominal segments I–VII with five setae: d1 placed antero-medially, d2-4 postero-medially, d5 postero-laterally, and abdominal segment VIII with only three setae dorsally. Abdominal segment IX with four micro-setae ventrally.