Scirtoidea, Fleming, 1821

Peck, Stewart B., 2016, The beetles of the Lesser Antilles (Insecta, Coleoptera): diversity and distributions, Insecta Mundi 2016 (460), pp. 1-360 : 96

Superfamily Scirtoidea

46. FAMILY CLAMBIDAE , the minute beetles

This family is known from North, Central and South America , but in the West Indies is reported only on Hispaniola (Endrödy-Younga 1981, 1998). Species are usually found in debris piles or leaf litter, where they probably feed on fungal spores; some may be predators on scale insects.

Clambus sp. , new family record, new genus record, new species record. Distribution. Dominica *, St. Vincent *. Note. Dissections of malegenitalia show this is not Clambuspanamensis insularis Endrödy- Younga 1998: 388 of Trinidad, which is geographically the closest known species record.