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 ficuzzensis sp. n. ( Figs. 5 , 31 , 80 , 94 ) Diagnosis : Small ( 3.30–3.80 mm ), elongate-subcylindrical; frons wide; epistoma slightly impressed, clypeus almost flat and shortly longitudinally impressed in middle; elytra with humeri rounded, clothed by dense brown scales here and there paler, and suberect setae with slightly widening apex; spermatheca as figured on Fig. 94 . Type series : Holotype female ( BEL ) with following labels: "Ƥ" [white, printed], [transparent label with genitalia in DHMF ], "I, Sic., Palermo, Sicani, Bosco Ficuzza loc. Crocefisso m.900, 16.IV.2010 " [white, printed], "vaglio sotto quercus legg. Baviera, Bellò & Chemello" [white, printed], "coll. Cesare Bellò" [green, printed]; " PABF 2.1" [white, printed], " Pseudomeira ficuzzensis sp. n. , Holotype , det. Bellò 2010 " [red, partly printed]. Paratypes : 3 females , "Sicilia, Palermo, Ficuzza, loc. Crocefisso, N 37°51.945” E 013°23.223” , 910 m , 20.IV.06 , sotto Quercus sp., leg. Bellò" ( BEL , PIE ); 1Ƥ, ibidem, 29.VI.07 , leg.Bellò ( BEL ); 20 females , "Corleone (Palermo) Ficuzza, 13.V.2007 , leg. Pierotti" ( PIE ); 1 females , "I., Sic., PA, Sicani, bosco Ficuzza, loc.Crocefisso, 900 m , vaglio sotto Quercus , 16 IV 2010 , leg. Baviera, Bellò & Chemello" ( BAV ). Molecular analyses were made of 2 of the 26 paratypes at hand. Other material : A single female labeled "PA, Ficuzza, Alpe Cucco, m 1000, v.[ag]lio lettiera Quercus , 10/ 13– III –’09, legg. Baviera & Bellò" ( BEL ) and three females labeled "S. PA, Sicani, Ficuzza, Alpe Cucco “B”, 950 m , Quercus & Hedera , N 37°51.818” E 013°25.033” , 25.IX.2010 , leg. Baviera" ( BEL ), provisionally considered as belonging to this species. Holotype female: Length: 3.80 mm . Body elongate, elytra longer than wide, with subparallel sides. Dorsal vestiture of imbricate dark brown scales and suberect setae with slightly widening apex; paler small markings on disc of both elytra and pronotum. Rostrum subquadrate, barely narrowing towards apex. Epistoma slightly depressed, plate without bulging edges; pterygia evident; clypeus enlarged apically, with longitudinal depression not continuing on frons; frons almost twice as wide as clypeus between antennae. Eyes convex. Antennae short and robust; scape more robust than funicle with curved base and progressively thickening towards apex; first five funicular segments with clubbed setae; first segment shorter than combined length of following two, second slightly longer than third, segments 4–7 pearl-shaped; club short, fusiform and with first segment widely conical. Pronotum slightly transverse (length: 0.80 mm , width: 0.90 mm ), sides sinuate, disc with punctures usually hidden by scales. Elytra rather elongate (length: 2.40 mm , width: 1.65 mm ), sub-cylindrical, disc almost flat, humeri short, round and slightly prominent. Striae inconspicuous, catenulate, interstriae feebly convex. Legs reddish; femora only slightly clubbed, edentate; tibiae straight, external margin of apex of protibiae blunt, internal apical margin devoid of spines but with apical mucro; protarsi short and robust, third joint shortly bilobed, onychium curved, claws fused at base. Spiculum ventrale: Fig. 80 ; spermatheca: Fig. 94 . Paratypes . Holotype and paratypes differs only in size dimensions. Length: 3.30–3.80 mm . All paratypes are females. Distribution : Known only from the type locality. Etymology : From the ‘Bosco della Ficuzza’, at the foot of the mountain ‘Rocca Busambra’. Ecology : Adults have been sifted from compacted leaf-litter in late spring. They are not evident during the hot dry summer, and probably overwinter deeper in the soil. Reproduction : Apparently parthenogenetic.