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 aeolica
Bellò, Pesarini & Pierotti, 1997
(
Figs. 26
,
52
,
64
,
76
)
Pseudomeira aeolica
Bellò et al., 1997: 69
;
Lo Cascio & Pasta, 2004
: 464
;
Osella et al., 2005
;
Abbazzi & Maggini, 2009
: 61
.
Pseudomeira vitalei
:
Magnano & Osella, 1973
: 105
.
Type
locality
: Salina Island, Malfa.
Diagnosis
: Small to middle-sized (3.0–
4.1 mm
) globose-elongate. Epistoma impressed, clypeus flat and longitudinally impressed in middle. Elytra clothed with golden or silvery scales just slightly imbricate and long thin suberect setae. Apex of aedeagus broadly rounded.
Description
: See
Bellò, Pesarini & Pierotti (1997)
.
Distribution
: Aeolian Islands.
Material
: A total of
112 specimens
, included the
holotype
in MMI. Genitalia of 4 were studied.
Localities
: Salina Island: Malfa (
BEL
, OSE,
PIE
), Val di Chiesa (OSE); Lipari Island (
BEL
, MMI,
PIE
,
STE
); Alicudi Island (
BEL
, MMI, PES,
PIE
); Filicudi Island (
BAV
,
BEL
); Stromboli Island (
BAV
,
BEL
).
Ecology
: One of us (Bellò) collected several adults at the beginning of summer sifting under
Artemisia
sp. and
Cistus
sp., in spite of temperatures around 40°C.
Reproduction
: Amphigonic.
Notes
: Although some divergence exists between specimens collected in different islands of the Aeolian archipelago, at the moment we consider all of them as belonging to the same species waiting the collection of more abundant material.