A taxonomic monograph of the genus Dodomeira Bellò & Baviera, a new genus of Peritelini from Sicily (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Entiminae)

The genus Dodomeira Bello & Baviera gen. n. of the tribe Peritelini Lacordaire (1863) (Curculionidae: Entiminae) which includes 39 species is described. Seven species are transferred from Pseudomeira Stierlin, 1881: Dodomeira confusa (Pierotti, 2012) comb. n., Dodomeira exigua (Stierlin, 1861) comb. n., Dodomeira ficuzzensis (Bello & Baviera, 2011) comb. n., Dodomeira himerensis (Bello & Baviera, 2011) comb. n., Dodomeira petrensis (Bello & Baviera, 2011) comb. n., Dodomeira pfisteri (Stierlin, 1864) comb. n., Dodomeira trinacriae (Bello & Baviera, 2011) comb. n.. Thirty-two species are new for science and here described: Dodomeira adrianae Bello & Baviera sp. n., Dodomeira alta Bello & Baviera sp. n., Dodomeira angelae Bello & Baviera sp. n., Dodomeira asinelliensis Bello & Baviera sp. n. , Dodomeira belicensis Bello & Baviera sp. n., Dodomeira bertoni Bello & Baviera sp. n., Dodomeira calatina Bello & Baviera sp. n., Dodomeira caoduroi Bello & Baviera sp. n. n., Dodomeira elima Bello & Baviera sp. n., Dodomeira enzoi Bello & Baviera sp. n., Dodomeira fossor Bello & Baviera sp. n., Dodomeira forbicionii Bello & Baviera sp. n., Dodomeira genistae Bello & Baviera sp. n., Dodomeira giustoi Bello & Baviera sp. n., Dodomeira hiemalis Bello & Baviera sp. n., Dodomeira ibleiensis Bello & Baviera sp. n., Dodomeira illuminatae Bello & Baviera sp. n., Dodomeira juliae Bello & Baviera sp. n., Dodomeira laliaensis Bello & Baviera sp. n., Dodomeira magrinii Bello & Baviera sp. n., Dodomeira montivaga Bello & Baviera sp. n., Dodomeira margheritae Bello & Baviera sp. n., Dodomeira maritimaensis Bello & Baviera sp. n., Dodomeira nobilis Bello & Baviera sp. n., Dodomeira paladinii Bello & Baviera sp. n., Dodomeira sabellai Bello & Baviera sp. n., Dodomeira saccoi Bello & Baviera sp. n., Dodomeira sicana Bello & Baviera sp. n., Dodomeira sicelidis Bello & Baviera sp. n., Dodomeira siderea Bello & Baviera sp. n., Dodomeira silvanae Bello & Baviera sp. n., Dodomeira zingara Bello & Baviera sp. n.. In addition, according to morphological characters, eight informal groups of species are established (the number of species ascribed to the group is in brackets): Dodomeira adrianae species group (13), Dodomeira caoduroi species group (2), Dodomeira exigua species group (5), Dodomeira ficuzzensis species group (2), Dodomeira maritimaensis species group (1), Dodomeira petrensis species group (2), Dodomeira pfisteri species group (13), Dodomeira saccoi species group (1). We present a key for the identification of the new genus among Palaearctic Peritelini, one for single species groups and an other for each species. A checklist of all the species currently known of Dodomeira gen. n. and Pseudomeira Stierlin (1881), with distribution maps and data on ecology and phenology of all the species of Dodomeira gen. n. are also provided.