Clivinema Reuter, 1876

Ferreira, Paulo Sérgio Fiuza, Martins, David Dos Santos, Ferreira, Luciano Santana Fiuza & Fornazier, Maurício José, 2024, Synopsis of Miridae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) in Atlantic Forest Dominion, Espírito Santo State, Brazil: keys, diagnoses, new species, plant associations, and geographic distribution. Part I: Bryocorinae, Cylapinae and Deraeocorinae., Zootaxa 5468 (2), pp. 201-254 : 238

Genus Clivinema Reuter

Type species: Clivinema villosa Reuter, 1876 . Monotypic. Clivinema : Reuter 1876:63 (new genus); Carvalho 1957:40 (catalog); Kelton 1980B:350 (diagnosis); Ferreira 1998: 54 (cladistic, distribution, biology); Ferreira 2000: 39 (review, key to genera); Ferreira 2001:230 (diagnosis, description of genera); Schuh 2002 –2013 (online catalog).

Diagnosis. Body pilosity with fine hairs sometimes curved apically, occasionally forming dense woolly pilosity; pronotum smooth or indistinctly punctate, usually with exudation of white wax; anterior margin of pronotum extended over head as seen from the side (Ferreira 2001).