Dodomeira ficuzzensis

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 : 68-69

Dodomeira ficuzzensis species group (2)

( Figures 42f, 42g )

Diagnosis. A Dodomeira group of medium-large sized species (length: 3.30–4.10 mm.) with stubby body (length/ width ratio: 1.51–1.57) and sub-oval elytra. Rostrum with epistome inconspicuous. Mesorostrum with widened and golden setae. Antenna with length scape/length funicle ratio 0.67–0.69. Pronotum transverse (length 0.70–0.90 mm, width 0.85–1.00) with length/width ratio 0.82–0.90. Elytra clothed by dense imbricate dark brown scales here and there paler, with slim setae, slightly widened apex, semi-erect (45°–75°).

Distribution. The species of this group lives in central-western Sicily and and in the Sicani Mountains ( Fig. 140 ).

Main soil type. Rendzina (European Soil Data Centre; Panagos et al. 2012).

Reproduction. To date, all 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.

FIGURE 140. Distribution of Dodomeira caoduroi species group (pink), Dodomeira exigua species group (red), Dodomeira ficuzzensis species group (blue) and Dodomeira petrensis species group (white).