Colenisia Fauvel, 1903; Type species: Colenisia caledonica Fauvel, 1903

Schilthuizen, Menno, Seip, Lilian A, Otani, Sean, Suhaimi, Jadda & Njunjic, Iva, 2017, Three new minute leaf litter beetles discovered by citizen scientists in Maliau Basin, Malaysian Borneo (Coleoptera: Leiodidae, Chrysomelidae), Biodiversity Data Journal 5, pp. 21947-21947 : 21947

Colenisia Fauvel, 1903; Type species: Colenisia caledonica Fauvel, 1903

Colenisia Fauvel, 1903; ( Fauvel 1903, Newton 1998, Daffner 1991, Švec 2013)

Colenisia Colenisia caledonica Fauvel, 1903 Fauvel 1903

Diagnosis

Body small (0.8-2.5 mm), oval, glossy, usually uniformly brown. Head broad, occipital crest absent, at least half as wide as the pronotum, with distinct microreticulation. Antennal insertion concealed, antennal groove absent. Antennae 11-segmented, relatively compact, 8th antennomere much smaller than 9th and 10th. Labrum not emarginate; mandible with strongly developed molar surface. Elytra with transverse microreticulation. First abdominal segment without a transverse carina. Hind coxae not separated. Tarsal formula 5-4-4 in both sexes. Aedeagus with free parameres.