Dodomeira exigua species group (5)

(Figures 42a, 42b, 42c, 42d, 42e)

Diagnosis. A small or medium-sized Dodomeira group (2.80–4.55 mm) with stubby body and oval-elongate elytra (length/width ratio: 1.46–1.65). Rostrum with epistome inconspicuous or not visible. Mesorostrum with widened/ clavate or spatulate and golden setae. Antenna with length scape/length funicle ratio 0.67–0.83. Pronotum transverse or quite sub-square (length 0.65–0.85 mm, width 0.75–0.95) with length/width ratio 0.78–0.94. Elytra clothed by imbricate brownish-golden scales, widened/clavate or spatulate setae, not erect or semi-erect (45°–90°), on elytra and elytral declivity.

Distribution. Tyrrhenian western Sicily (Fig. 140).

Main soil type. Chromic-Luvisol (European Soil Data Centre; Panagos et al. 2012).

Reproduction. All species are amphigonic.