On the Sicilian species of Pseudomeira Stierlin (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Entiminae)
Author
Bellò, Cesare
Author
Baviera, Cosimo
text
Zootaxa
2011
3100
35
68
journal article
45977
10.5281/zenodo.204879
e289c8b1-0af5-4775-8b7b-2bbfac2ea24c
1175-5326
204879
Pseudomeira parvula
(
Seidlitz, 1865
)
Peritelus parvulus
Seidlitz, 1865
: 327
, 328;
Seidlitz, 1866
: 55
, 56; Desbrochers, 1871: 347;
Stierlin, 1883
: 593
;
Bargagli, 1884
: 49
;
Vitale, 1892
: 219
;
Vitale, 1900a
: 19
;
Vitale, 1901
: 426
;
Vitale, 1904
: 13
;
Vitale, 1906b
: 85
;
Solari & Solari, 1907
: 117
;
Luigioni, 1929
: 872
.
Peritelus
(
Curculio
)
parvulus
:
Bertolini, 1872
: 168
.
Peritelus italicus
Marseul, 1872
: 88
;
Bertolini, 1899
: 89
.
Peritelus
(
Peritelus
)
parvulus
:
Seidlitz, 1865
: 291
;
Stierlin, 1883
: 594
;
Vitale, 1892
: 225
;
Porta, 1932
: 61
.
Pseudomeira parvula
:
Solari, 1955
: 44
;
Abbazzi & Osella, 1992
: 305
;
Abbazzi et al., 1995
: 23
;
Pierotti & Bellò, 1995
: 523
;
Pierotti & Bellò, 1998
: 105
;
Osella et al., 2005
;
Abbazzi & Maggini, 2009
: 62
.
This species is indicated as occurring in Sicily most probably based on some specimens in VIT identified as
Peritelus parvulus
, partly from Messina, and partly from Monte Ciccia. However, after studying the Vitale collection, we discovered that those from the first locality are
P. obscura
, and those from the second are
P
.
obscurella
. Consequently
P. parvula
, known from Piedmont, Lombardy, Liguria and Tuscany, is excluded from the Sicilian fauna.