Dodomeira adrianae, 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 : 16

Dodomeira adrianae species group (13)

( Figures 40a, 40b, 40c, 40d, 40e, 40f, 40g, 40h , 41a, 41b, 41c, 41d, 41e )

Diagnosis. A Dodomeira group of small-medium sized species (length: 3.10–4.10 mm) with sub-parallel elytra (length/width ratio: 1.60–1.65) and body shape sub-cylindrical. Epistome absent or inconspicuous. Mesorostrum with clavate or spatulate, golden-silvery setae. Antenna with length scape/length funicle ratio 0.64–0.83. Pronotum (length 0.75–0.95 mm, width 0.83–1.00) with length/width ratio 0.83–1.00. Elytra clothed by imbricate brown silvery scales and golden setae clavate or spatulate on disc of elytra or elytral declivity; flattened (0–15°), recumbent (15°–30°), raised (30°–45°), semi-erect (45°–75°) setae on sides.

Distribution. The species of this group are present in the Sicani Mountains and uncommon in the rest of Sicily (Peloritani, Erei and Iblei Mountains) ( Fig. 139). Vertic-Cambisol (7), Chromic-Cambisol (4), Calcaro-Eutric- Cambisol (2).

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

Figures

FIGURES 40 a— 40 h. Facies of Dodomeira adrianae species group: 40 a— D. adrianae Bello & Baviera sp. n. ♀ holotype; 40 b— D. alta Bello & Baviera sp. n. ♀ holotype; 40 c— D. belicensis Bello & Baviera sp. n. ♀ holotype; 40 d— D. calatina Bellò & Baviera sp. n. ♀ holotype; 40 e— D. enzoi Bellò & Baviera sp. n. ♀ holotype; 40 f— D. forbicionii Bellò & Baviera sp. n. ♀ holotype; 40 g— D. ibleiensis Bello & Baviera sp. n. ♀ holotype; 40 h— D. hiemalis Bellò & Baviera sp. n. ♀ holotype.

FIGURES 41 a – 41 g. Facies of Dodomeira adrianae species group: 41 a— D. juliae Bellò & Baviera sp. n. ♀ holotype; 41 b— D. laliaensis Bello & Baviera sp. n. ♀ holotype; 41 c— D. sicana Bello & Baviera sp. n. ♀ holotype; 41 d— D. sicelidis Bellò & Baviera sp. n. ♀ holotype; 41 e— D. siderea Bellò & Baviera sp. n. ♀ holotype. Facies of Dodomeira caoduroi species group: 41 f— D. caoduroi Bellò & Baviera sp. n. ♀ holotype; 41 g— D. confusa (Pierotti, 2012) topotype ♀.