Eoclivina ( Kult, 1959 )

Balkenohl, Michael, 2023, The genus Eoclivina (KULT, 1959) from Africa with the description of two new species (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Clivinini), Belgian Journal of Entomology 138, pp. 1-17 : 4

Genus Eoclivina ( Kult, 1959)

TYPE SPECIES: Clivina dumolinii Putzeys, 1846 .

DIAGNOSIS. The genus Eoclivina is recognizable by the following characters: Small to medium sized (3.8-9.1 mm), brown or piceous with fuscous intermediate and hind legs, subcylindrical or long-oval shape of the habitus. Head with conspicuously wide supraantennal plates overtopping eyes anteriorly, labrum six-setose, mandibles distinctly widened in the basal part, frons of the head with an inverted V formed by a carina and in some species in addition with a slight sulcus posterior to the carina; pronotum with narrow base, posterior angles rounded-off, pleura just not visible in dorsal view; elytron with row of umbilical setigerous punctures in the lateral channel interrupted by a gap, striae one to three ending free at the base, intervals without setigerous punctures; hind wing fully developed or reduced; last visible sternite of the abdomen with the two marginal setigerous punctures widely separated; mesotibia with rows of tubercles latero-dorsally; gonocoxite monomer, small, leaf-like, hyaline. Occurrence: Tropical rain forest belt of Africa from the west coast to the Tanganyika Lake.