A taxonomic monograph of the genus Dodomeira Bellò & Baviera, a new genus of Peritelini from Sicily (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Entiminae)
Author
Baviera, Cosimo
text
Zootaxa
2017
2017-10-13
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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.4334.1.1
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Dodomeira pfisteri
species group (13)
(
Figures 43c, 43d, 43e, 43f,
43g
, 43h
,
44a, 44b, 44c, 44d, 44e, 44f,
44g
)
Diagnosis.
A
Dodomeira
group of small or medium-sized species (length:
2.90–4.25 mm
.) with elytra parallel or sub-parallel (length/width ratio: 1.66–1.80) and body shape cylindrical or sub-cylindrical. Epistome absent. Mesorostrum with widened or clavate, golden-silvery setae. Antenna with length scape/length funicle ratio 0.67– 0.83. Pronotum (length
0.70–0.90 mm
, width 0.70–1.00 mm) with length/width ratio 0.88–1.00. Elytra clothed by imbricate brown silvery scales and silvery-golden setae clavate or spatulate on elytra or elytral declivity; flattened (0–15°), recumbent (15°–30°), raised (30°–45°) on sides.
Distribution.
The species of this group lives in the Tyrrhenian central-western
Sicily
and are uncommon on Sicani Mountains (
Fig. 141
).
Main soil
types
.
Chromic-Luvisol (
6 sp.
), Vertic-Cambisol (
7 sp.
) (European Soil Data
Centre
;
Panagos
et al.
2012
).
Reproduction.
To date twelve species are parthenogenetic or probably parthenogenetic.