Clinidium Kirby, 1830

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 125

Genus Clinidium Kirby, 1830

Clinidium Kirby, 1830: 6. Type species: Clinidium guildingii Kirby, 1830 by monotypy. Etymology (original). From the Greek clinidion (small couch), alluding to the body shape of the adult [neuter].

Diversity.

About 75 species in the Nearctic (six species), Neotropical (about 65 species), and Palaearctic (three species) Regions arrayed in four subgenera: Arctoclinidium (nine species), Clinidium s.str. (about 50 Neotropical species), Mexiclinidium Bell and Bell (11 Middle American species), and Tainoa Bell and Bell (four West Indian species).

Identification.

Bell and Bell (1985) revised the species of the world and provided keys for their identification.