Miarus abnormis Solari, 1947

Skuhrovec, Jiri, Gosik, Rafal, Caldara, Roberto, Tosevski, Ivo, Letowski, Jacek & Szwaj, Ewelina, 2018, Morphological characters of immature stages of Palaearctic species of Cleopomiarus and Miarus and their systematic value in Mecinini (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Curculioninae), ZooKeys 808, pp. 23-92 : 70-71

Miarus abnormis Solari, 1947 Figures 97, 98-100

Material examined.

3 specimens: 1 ♂, 2 ♀, north-eastern Italy, Venezia Giulia, Duino (Trieste), Rilke path, August 2017, ex galls on capsules of Campanula pyramidalis L., leg. E. Tomasi, det. R. Caldara.

Description.

Measurements (in mm). Body length: 3.55-3.60. Body width: 1.90-2.00. Head width: 0.55-0.60.

Body moderately slender (Figs 97-100). The cuticle densely covered with asperities. Rostrum medium length, approximately 2.3 times as long as wide, reached up to mesocoxae. Antennae moderately elongated. Pronotum 2.1 times as wide as long. Urogomphi (ur) slender and elongated, conical, each of them with sclerotized apex (Figs 98-100).

Chaetotaxy: setae brownish to dark brown, piliform, short to medium size. Head capsule with one vs, one sos, and three os of equal length; rostrum with three rs (rs1 and rs2 placed medially, rs3 more apically) and one es (Figs 98, 99). Pronotum with: two as, two ds, two sls, one ls and three pls (Figs 99. 100). Setae on head and rostrum slightly shorter than those on prothorax. All setae of prothorax almost equal in length (Fig. 100). Mesothorax with three setae placed medially; metathorax with three setae placed laterally. Apex of each femora with one fes (Figs 98-100). Abdominal segments I–VIII with two short, thin setae laterally and three short setae ventrally. Dorsal parts of each abdominal segments I–VIII with four setae: d1-3 placed postero-medially, d4 postero-laterally. Abdominal segment IX with six microsetae ventrally.