Tribe Clavigerini Leach, 1815

Museums

Regional Maps

• Clavigerini Leach, W.E. 1815. Entomology. pp. 57-172 in Brewster (ed.). The Edinburgh Encyclopedia. Edinburgh : William Blackburn Vol. 9(1) 764 pp. [reprint 1830] [117].

  Type genus:

   Claviger Preyssler, 1790.

  Secondary source:

   Jeannel, R. 1949. Les Psélaphides de l'Afrique Orientale (Coleoptera). Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] 29: 1-226 [29]; Jeannel, R. 1950. Coléoptères Psélaphides. Faune de France. Paris : Lechevalier Vol. 53 iii 421 pp. [60]; Besuchet, C. 1991. Révolution chez les Clavigerinae (Coleoptera, Pselaphidae). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 98: 499-515 [515].

Introduction

The Clavigerini currently contains 97 genera, with most of these in the Afrotropical and Oriental Regions (Chandler 2001: 535).

Excluded Taxa

Misidentifications

PSELAPHINAE: Clavigeropsis Raffray, 1882 [only species removed to Tapas]

Diagnosis

Head cylindrical, frontal rostrum strongly projecting; antennomeres I very short, often difficult to see, number of antennomeres varying from 3-6 (5-6 in Australia); clypeus broadly arcuate, with small apicolateral cavities partially enclosing reduced maxillary palpi. Abdomen shallowly and broadly depressed at base of tergal plate and visible sternite 2 (IV); visible tergite 4 (VII) lacking adjacent paratergites. Legs with first 2 tarsomeres very short. Male genitalia with bulbous median lobe, dorsal diaphragm present, parameres apparently lacking in most genera (Jeannel 1950, 1960), parameres present in the single Australian genus.

ID Keys

Single genus in Australia, Clavigeropsis Raffrau, 1882 (Africa with 2 species, Australia with 1 species).

Diagnosis References

Chandler, D.S. 2001. Biology, morphology, and systematics of the ant-like litter beetle genera of Australia (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae). Gainesville, FL : Memoirs on Entomology, International Vol. 15 viii + 560 pp. [Date published 30 April 2001] [535]

Jeannel, R. 1950. Coléoptères Psélaphides. Faune de France. Paris : Lechevalier Vol. 53 iii 421 pp.

Jeannel, R. 1960. Sur les Pselaphides (Coleoptera) de l'Inde septentrionale. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology 9: 403-456

General References

Chandler, D.S. 2001. Biology, morphology, and systematics of the ant-like litter beetle genera of Australia (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae). Gainesville, FL : Memoirs on Entomology, International Vol. 15 viii + 560 pp. [Date published 30 April 2001]

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