Dodomeira saccoi, 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 : 110

Dodomeira saccoi species group (1)

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Diagnosis. A Dodomeira group of medium-sized species (length: 3.80) with slender body (length/width ratio: 1.67) and elytral declivity elongate. Rostrum conical with converging sides. Epistome little evident with barely raised plate. Mesorostrum with clavate and silvery setae. Antenna with length scape/length funicle ratio 0.75. Pronotum transverse (length 0.75 mm, width 0.95) with length/width ratio 0.79. Elytra whitout humeri and clothed by not imbricated brown scales and silvery setae clavate, semi-erect (angle with elytral surface 60°–75°). Protibia without mucro on inner apical angle. Tunisia.

Distribution. The only species belonging to this group is present in western Tunisia.

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

Figures

FIGURES 44 a – 44 h. Facies of Dodomeira pfisteri species group: 44 a— D. illuminatae Bello & Baviera sp. n. ♀ holotype; 44 b— D. magrinii Bello & Baviera sp. n. ♀ holotype; 44 c— Dodomeira montivaga Bellò & Baviera sp. n. ♀ holotype; 44 d— D. nobilis Bellò & Baviera sp. n. ♀ holotype; 44 e— D. paladinii Bello & Baviera sp. n. ♀ holotype; 44 f— D. sabellai Bello & Baviera sp. n. ♀ paratype; 44 g— D. zingara Bellò & Baviera sp. n. ♀ holotype. Facies of Dodomeira saccoi species group: 44 h— D. saccoi Bellò & Baviera sp. n. ♀ holotype.