Clavicornaltica Scherer, 1974

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

Clavicornaltica Scherer, 1974

Clavicornaltica Scherer, 1974; ( Medvedev 1996, Scherer 1974, Konstantinov and Duckett 2005)

Clavicornaltica Clavicornaltica besucheti Scherer, 1974 Scherer 1974

Diagnosis

Small (0.7-2.2 mm), convex flea beetles, with strongly developed jumping hind legs and characteristically clavate antennae. Frons is broad, antennal insertions widely separated. Antennae 11-segmented, clavate after the 3rd antennomere. The first three antennomeres are long and slender, the next three very small, the final five are enlarged and form a club. Pronotum with two setal pores, the anterior of which is placed behind the middle of the lateral margin. Metasternum with an anterior-pointing, broad processus. Posterior femora strongly dilated. Metatibia slender and with a long terminal spore and a row of smaller terminal setae on the lateral edge.