Dodomeira petrensis

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 : 76

Dodomeira petrensis species group (2)

( Figures 43a, 43b )

Diagnosis. A Dodomeira group of medium-sized species (length: 3.25–4.00 mm.) with stubby body (length/width ratio: 1.43–1.58) and oval or sub-oval elytra. Rostrum with epistome inconspicuous. Mesorostrum with clavate and golden setae. Antenna with length scape/length funicle ratio 0.72–0.80. Pronotum transverse (length 0.75–0.90 mm, width 0.85–1.00) with length/width ratio 0.85–0.90. Elytra clothed by dense imbricate earth-golden-brown scales here and there paler, with setae more or less spatulate, more or less recumbent (15°–30°).

Distribution. The species of this group are known from central-western Sicily and the Madonie Mountains ( Fig. 140 ).

Main soil type. Vertic-Cambisol ( Rendzina ) (European Soil Data Centre; Panagos et al. 2012). Reproduction. To date, all species are parthenogenetic or probably parthenogenetic.

Figures

FIGURES 43 a – 43 h. Facies of Dodomeira petrensis species group: 43 a— D. petrensis (Bellò & Baviera, 2011) ♀ holotype; 43 b— D. asinelliensis Bellò & Baviera sp. n. ♀ holotype. Facies of Dodomeira pfisteri species group: 43 c— D. pfisteri (Stierlin, 1864) ♀ topotype; 43 d— D. angelae Bellò & Baviera sp. n. ♀ holotype; 43 e— D. bertoni Bellò & Baviera sp. n. ♀ holotype; 43 f— D. elima Bellò & Baviera sp. n. ♀ holotype; 43 g— D. fossor Bellò & Baviera sp. n. ♀ holotype; 43 h— D. giustoi 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).