Pseudomeira osellai Pierotti & Bellò, 1994

Bellò, Cesare & Baviera, Cosimo, 2011, On the Sicilian species of Pseudomeira Stierlin (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Entiminae), Zootaxa 3100, pp. 35-68 : 45

Pseudomeira osellai Pierotti & Bellò, 1994

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Pseudomeira osellai Pierotti & Bellò, 1994: 107 ; Pierotti & Bellò, 1998: 106; Colonnelli, 2003: 48; Osella et al., 2005; Abbazzi & Maggini, 2009: 62.

Type locality: Sicily, Monti Iblei, Bosco Baulì.

Diagnosis: Small (2.8–3.8 mm), rather elongate oval. Epistoma impressed with just slightly bulging edges, clypeus almost flat and longitudinally feebly impressed in middle; elytra clothed by earth-brown scales and rather thick suberect setae; aedeagus with sides converging from apical third and apex sharp.

Description: See Pierotti & Bellò (1994).

Distribution: Known only from the type locality.

Material: A total of 53 specimens, including the holotype in PIE were examined. Genitalia of 4 were studied.

Localities: Siracusa: Monti Iblei, Bosco Baulì ( BEL, OSE, PIE).

Ecology: Adults were sifted from leaf-litter below Quercus ilex L. and Q. cerris L., and found under the nearby stones.

Reproduction: Amphigonic.

Figures

FIGURES 10 – 18. Habitus of Pseudomeira ssp. (scale bar: 1 mm).

FIGURES 36 – 44. Lateral view of Pseudomeira ssp. (scale bar: 1 mm).

FIGURES 53 – 64. Aedeagus of Pseudomeira ssp.

FIGURES 65 – 76. Apex aedeagus of Pseudomeira ssp.

FIGURES 77 – 90. Spiculum ventrale of Pseudomeira ssp.

FIGURES 91 – 104. Spermatheca of Pseudomeira ssp.