Pseudomeira cossyrica Pierotti & Bellò, 1994

(Figs. 25, 51, 63, 75)

Pseudomeira cossyrica Pierotti & Bellò, 1994: 107; Osella & Riti, 1995: 618; Pierotti & Bellò, 1998: 106; Sparacio, 1999: 138; Colonnelli, 2003: 48; Abbazzi & Maggini, 2009: 61.

Pseudomeira paganettii ? Solari: Liebmann,1962: 5.

Pseudomeira crassirostris Solari: Magnano & Osella, 1973: 632.

Type locality: Pantelleria Island, Montagna Grande.

Diagnosis: Small (3.0–4.0 mm) globose-elongate. Epistoma impressed, clypeus flat and rather shallowly longitudinally impressed in middle. Elytra clothed with coppery-golden scales just slightly imbricate and long thin almost recumbent setae. Aedeagus with subtrapezoidal apex.

Description: See Pierotti & Bellò (1994).

Distribution: Pantelleria Island; known only from the type locality.

Material: A total of 69 specimens, including the holotype (PIE) and paratypes (BEL, OSE, PIE) were examined.

Localities: Pantelleria (HOF): Montagna Grande (BEL, OSE, PIE).

Ecology: Adults have been collected at the end of June in Pinus undergrowth and under Mediterranean shrubs. Possibly the phenology is similar to other Pseudomeira, namely with adults aestivating and reappearing in autumn.

Reproduction: Amphigonic.