Pseudomeira osellai Pierotti & Bellò, 1994

(Figs. 16, 17, 42, 43, 59, 71, 86, 100)

Pseudomeira osellai Pierotti & Bellò, 1994: 107; Pierotti & Bellò, 1998: 106; Colonnelli, 2003: 48; Osella et al., 2005; Abbazzi & Maggini, 2009: 62.

Type locality: Sicily, Monti Iblei, Bosco Baulì.

Diagnosis: Small (2.8–3.8 mm), rather elongate oval. Epistoma impressed with just slightly bulging edges, clypeus almost flat and longitudinally feebly impressed in middle; elytra clothed by earth-brown scales and rather thick suberect setae; aedeagus with sides converging from apical third and apex sharp.

Description: See Pierotti & Bellò (1994).

Distribution: Known only from the type locality.

Material: A total of 53 specimens, including the holotype in PIE were examined. Genitalia of 4 were studied.

Localities: Siracusa: Monti Iblei, Bosco Baulì (BEL, OSE, PIE).

Ecology: Adults were sifted from leaf-litter below Quercus ilex L. and Q. cerris L., and found under the nearby stones.

Reproduction: Amphigonic.