Physoclivina, Kult, 1959

Balkenohl, Michael, 2018, The first species of the subgenus Physoclivina K, 1959 outside equatorial Africa (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Clivinini), Linzer biologische Beiträge 50 (1), pp. 189-195 : 190

Subgenus Physoclivina KULT, 1959

T y p e s p e c i e s: Clivina physopleura BURGEON, 1935 by original designation.

The Subgenus Physoclivina is recognizable by the following characters: Small sized (2.5–3.5 mm), conspicuously cylindrical shape of the habitus, labrum six-setose, with carinae on the frons of the head in form of an inverted V, swollen pleura with the tumidity more or less visible in dorsal view, on the elytron striae one and two are free at the base, no dorsal pores on the third interval and no scutellar striole on the disc of the elytron, and at the mesotibia without a subapical seta furnished spur. At the margin of the abdominal sternum the two setigerous punctures are widely separated.