Pseudomeira cossyrica Pierotti & Bellò, 1994

Bellò, Cesare & Baviera, Cosimo, 2011, On the Sicilian species of Pseudomeira Stierlin (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Entiminae), Zootaxa 3100, pp. 35-68 : 50

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.

Figures

FIGURES 19 – 26. Habitus of Pseudomeira ssp. (scale bar: 1 mm).

FIGURES 45 – 52. Lateral view of Pseudomeira ssp. (scale bar: 1 mm).

FIGURES 53 – 64. Aedeagus of Pseudomeira ssp.

FIGURES 65 – 76. Apex aedeagus of Pseudomeira ssp.