New data on some Curculionoidea (Coleoptera: Anthribidae, Apionidae, Curculionidae) from Sardinia *
Author
Colonnelli, Enzo
Via delle Giunchiglie 56, I- 00172 Rome, Italy. E-mail: ecolonnelli @ yahoo. it
Author
Osella, Giuseppe
Dipartimento di Scienze Ambientali, Università de L’Aquila, Via Vetoio 14, I- 67110 L’Aquila, Italy. E-mail: osella @ univaq. it
text
Zootaxa
2009
2009-12-22
2318
421
426
journal article
1175-5326
Ceutorhynchus resedae
(
Marsham, 1802
)
Material examined.
Sardinia
:
Carbonia-Iglesias prov.
,
Domusnovas
, sa
Duchessa
,
371 m
, UTM 32S 0464990 4358384,
19.IX–3.X.2006
,
G. Chessa
leg.,
Malaise trap
, 1 ex (
CNBFVR
)
.
Notes.
Although this quite uncommon species has been reported from several central and southern regions of
Italy
and from
Sicily
(
Colonnelli 2003
)
, the collecting of a single specimen at Sa Duchessa is the first record for
Sardinia
.
Ceutorhynchus resedae
is known from
England
, several countries of central and south-western Europe, and
Tunisia
(
Colonnelli 2004
). Development takes place at the base of stems of
Reseda alba
,
R. phyteuma
and
R
.
luteola
(Resedaceae)
(
Colonnelli 2004
), the first two plants occurring in the above Sardinian locality (
Ballero & Angiolini 1991
).