Clivina physopleura, Burgeon, 1935

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 : 191

Clivina physopleura BURGEON, 1935 ( Figs 1, 5 )

Clivina physopleura BURGEON, 1935: 151.

Clivina physopleura BURGEON, 1935, KULT, 1959: 176.

Clivina physopleura BURGEON, 1935, BASILEWSKY, 1952: 7.

Clivina physopleura BURGEON, 1935, BASILEWSKY, 1967: 1734.

Clivina physopleura BURGEON, 1935, BASILEWSKY, 1969: 326.

Clivina physopleura BURGEON, 1935, LORENZ, 2005: 145.

Clivina physopleura BURGEON, 1935, DOSTAL, 2015: 28.

O c c u r r e n c e: Confirmed with many records from the Democratic Republic of the Congo but also from the South of Sudan and Zambia.

R e m a r k s: Two times the subgenus was treated as genus ( BASILEWSKY 1967, 1969) but without genus description or taxonomic statement. Physoclivina might indeed deserve genus level due to some very specific characters. But at the current point in time I refrain from taxonomic action.

The holotype and 19 paratypes located in MRACT have been investigated as well as specimens from the author’s collection. The holotype served for the pictures provided. To complete the series of habitus-pictures for all member of the subgenus, a picture has been added to this contribution as well.

Figures

Figs 1-9: Clivina (subgenus Physoclivina) spp.: (1) C. physopleura BURGEON, holotype, habitus; (2) C. dostaliana nov.sp., holotype, habitus; (3-6) head and pronotum: (3) C. dostaliana nov.sp., dorsal view; (4) lateral view; (5) C. physopleura BURGEON, lateral view; (6) C. bulirschi DOSTAL, lateral view; (7) C. dostaliana nov.sp., holotype, aedeagus and parameres, dorsal view and (8) lateral view; (9) C. dostaliana nov.sp., female coxostyli.