Pseudomeira trinacriae : Bellò & Baviera , 2011 : 35 Pierotti, 2013b : 353 Abbazzi & Zinetti, 2013 : 91 A taxonomic monograph of the genus Dodomeira Bellò & Baviera, a new genus of Peritelini from Sicily (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Entiminae) Baviera, Cosimo Zootaxa 2017 2017-10-13 4334 1 1 138   Pseudomeira trinacriae : Bellò & Baviera , 2011  : 35 B8LPB [151,412,1735,1761] Insecta Curculionidae Dodomeira Animalia Coleoptera 59 60 Arthropoda species trinacriae      Pseudomeira trinacriae: Bellò & Baviera, 2011: 35, 68;  Pierotti, 2013b: 353;  Abbazzi & Zinetti, 2013: 91.     Typelocality. Sicily, Palermo, Altavilla Milicia, Capo Grosso( Fig. 158).   Diagnosis.A small or medium-sized  Dodomeira( 3.20–3.80 mm) belonging to the  exiguagroup with more stubby body. Within the species group, it is recognisable by oval but slightly elongate elytra whitout humeri.   FIGURES 18–18f.  Dodomeira trinacriae(Bellò & Baviera, 2011) paratype ♂ from “Altavilla Milicia, Palermo”: 18—habitus dorsal view (scale bar: 1 mm); 18a—habitus, lateral view; 18b—pronotum and rostrum, lateral view; 18c—pronotum, dorsal view; 18d— elytral vestiture; 18e—funicle and club; 18f— apex penis.   FIGURES 18’–18’f.  Dodomeira trinacriae(Bellò & Baviera, 2011) paratype ♀ from “Altavilla Milicia, Palermo”: 18‘— habitus dorsal view (scale bar: 1 mm); 18‘a—habitus, lateral view; 18‘b—pronotum and rostrum, lateral view; 18‘cpronotum, dorsal view; 18‘d—elytral vestiture; 18‘e—funicle and club; 18‘f—spermatheca. Elytral declivity with elongate and recumbent setae (15°–30°). Antenna short and robust. Penis with rounded apex. Sizes: pronotum (length: 0.65–0.85 mm, width: 0.83–0.95 mm, ratio 0.78–0.89), elytra (length: 2.10–2.50 mm, width: 1.35–1.60 mm, ratio 1.56–1.57).   Material examined. Holotypewith the following labels: [transparent label with genitalia in DHMF] // [white, printed] ♂ // [white, printed] “Palermo, Altavilla Milicia, Capo Grosso, 24.V.97, leg. Bellò” // [green, printed] "coll. Cesare Bellò" // [red, partly printed] “  Pseudomeira trinacriae  sp. n., Holotypus, det. Bellò 2010” // [white, printed] “  Dodomeira trinacriae( Bellò & Baviera, 2011) det. Bellò 2016” (CBE). Paratypes: 25 males and 30 females (CBA, CBE, ECO, GOS, HPI, LFO, MTE).   Holotyperedescription.Male Figs. 18, 18a. Total length: 3.40 mm. Stubby body. Elytra oval-elongate. Dorsal vestiture with imbricate, brownish-golden scales with metallic sheen. Rostrum clothed by golden-brown scales, transverse (length/width ratio 0.68), sub-parallel to the sides. Pterygia visible. Epistome inconspicuous and slightly concave. Mesorostrum concave, anteriorly with eight thin, short, semi-erect setae. Vertex wide and convex (vertex width / mesorostrum width: ratio 1.60) with several, elongate, clavate, recumbent setae. Interocular space with not visible fovea. Lateral, relatively small, spherical eyes slightly protruding from outline of head. Antenna robust and short with recumbent, golden/silvery, widened setae. Antenna with ratio 0.83 (scape length: 0.75 mm, funicle length: 0.90 mm). Scape clubbed hardly more robust than funicle, curved al basal third and progressively thickening towards apex. Funicle segments including club, relative lengths as follows: 10.5.4.3.3.3.3.12; first five segments with widened setae; segments 3–7 pearl-shaped. Club not twice wider than funicle, compact, fusiform with suture between first and second segment not visible. Pronotum clothed with brownish-golden scales, transverse (length: 0.75 mm, width: 0.85 mm, ratio: 0.88), slightly sub-conical, rounded at the sides, wider in the middle, with short, quite clavate, golden recumbent setae. Punctation usually covered by scales. Scutellum inconspicuous. Humeri null. Elytra (length: 2.20 mm, width: 1.40 mm, ratio: 1.57) vaulted dorsally, sub-oval but slightly elongate, clothed with dense brownish-golden scales here and there paler, rounded on sides, wider at the middle, flat suture. Elytral declivity with widened-clavate and recumbent setae (20°–40°). Punctation of striae, shallow, rather catenulate and impressed. Interstriae with widened-clavate, short, golden quite flattened setae. Legs short and robust clothed by golden-brown scales and with short, clavate golden setae. Femora little clubbed. Protibia with two acute spines on inner edge, with evident mucro on inner apical angle. Protibia quite sinuous on inner edge, metatibia and mesotibia straight in side view. Tarsal segment 1 short, conical; segment 2 short and transverse; segment 3 shallowly bilobed; all segments with thin golden setae. Onychium curved, robust and short.   Male genitalia. See Figures: dorsal shape aedeagus ( Fig. 47), internal sac ( Fig. 52), sternite IX ( Fig. 57), apex of penis ( Fig. 18f). Genitalia were examined in four specimens.   Distribution.See Fig. 140. Italian endemic. Known only from the typelocality.   Ecology and Phenology.Collected from Berlese or Winkler extraction of burnt maquis with  Chamaerops humilisL,  Ericasp.,  Vitex agnus castusL., and other Mediterranean plants, sifting the leaf, at 50–100 meters. Adults appear in late spring (some of them collected at the end of May still had the deciduous mandibular cusps), probably aestivate and reappear, less common, in autumn.   Main soil type. Chromic-Luvisol(European Soil Data Centre; Panagos et al.2012).   Reproduction.Amphigonic.  Systematic Note.Species belonging to the  Dodomeira exiguagroup and not  Pseudomeira vitaleigroup (sensu Bellò & Baviera, 2011) because the sclerite of internal sac of endophallus is without dorsal lamina. 1671715635 [151,832,1735,1762] Baviera 59 60 1 Baviera 1671715615 [151,972,1909,1934] Palermo Capo Grosso Altavilla Milicia 59 60 1 Sicily holotype 1671715650 [199,1143,1519,1544] Chromic-Luvisol 62 63 1 Centre holotype