Ardistomina Putzeys, 1867

Balkenohl, Michael, 2022, On the female gonocoxites of Asian, Arabian, and African Clivinini with realignment of the Thliboclivina-, Physoclivina-, and Eoclivina-species groups, and notes on the higher systematics of the tribe Clivinini Rafinesque, 1815 (Coleoptera, Carabidae), Zootaxa 5190 (1), pp. 99-126 : 104

Ardistomina Putzeys, 1867

The subtribe comprises four genera. It is represented in Asia with one species ( Aspidoglossa subangulata ), known from Japan.

The morphology (shape E) of the external female genitalia represents a very different basic pattern. Members of the American genera Ardistomis Putzeys, 1846 and Semiardistomis Kult, 1950 investigated for validation ( Tab. 2 ) show the same shape. Valdés (2012) already recognized the value of the female genitalia and separated the “ardistomine type ” from the “clivine type ”. In the absence of data from the American genus Kearophus Dajoz, 2004 the data confirm the distinctness of a separate line.