Dodomeira exigua (Stierlin, 1861) 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 : 54

Dodomeira exigua species group (5)

( Figures 42a, 42b, 42c, 42d, 42e )

Diagnosis. A small or medium-sized Dodomeira group (2.80–4.55 mm) with stubby body and oval-elongate elytra (length/width ratio: 1.46–1.65). Rostrum with epistome inconspicuous or not visible. Mesorostrum with widened/ clavate or spatulate and golden setae. Antenna with length scape/length funicle ratio 0.67–0.83. Pronotum transverse or quite sub-square (length 0.65–0.85 mm, width 0.75–0.95) with length/width ratio 0.78–0.94. Elytra clothed by imbricate brownish-golden scales, widened/clavate or spatulate setae, not erect or semi-erect (45°–90°), on elytra and elytral declivity.

Distribution. Tyrrhenian western Sicily ( Fig. 140 ).

Main soil type. Chromic-Luvisol (European Soil Data Centre; Panagos et al. 2012).

Reproduction. All species are amphigonic.

Figures

FIGURES 42 a – 42 h. Facies of Dodomeira exigua species group: 42 a— D. exigua (Stierlin, 1861) ♂ topotype; 42 b— D. himerensis (Bellò & Baviera, 2011) ♂ paratype; 42 c— D. trinacriae (Bellò & Baviera, 2011) ♂ paratype; 42 d—D. genistae Bellò & Baviera sp. n. ♂ holotype; 42 e— D. margheritae Bellò & Baviera sp. n. ♂ paratype. Facies of Dodomeira ficuzzensis species group: 42 f— D. ficuzzensis (Bellò & Baviera, 2011) ♀ holotype; 42 f— D. silvanae Bellò & Baviera sp. n. ♀ holotype. Facies of Dodomeira maritimaensis species group: 42 h— D. maritimaensis 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).