Clivina Latreille, 1802

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 278

Genus Clivina Latreille, 1802

Clivina Latreille, 1802: 96. Type species: Scarites arenarius Fabricius, 1775 (= Tenebrio fossor Linnaeus, 1758) by monotypy. Etymology. From the Greek clivina (kind of bird in Pliny the Elder) [feminine].

Diversity.

Worldwide, with about 375 species described (Lorenz 2005: 141-145) arrayed in nine subgenera: Antroforceps , Clivina s.str., Cliviniella Kult (four Afrotropical species), Dacca Putzeys (one Oriental species), Eoclivina Kult (eight Indo-African species), Physoclivina Kult (one Afrotropical species), Reichardtula Whitehead, Leucocara , and Semiclivina . Seventeen species, three of them adventive, are found in the boreal (marginal), temperate, and subtropical areas of North America.