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Clinidium (Protainoa)

Clinidium extrarium

Ross T. Bell
Containing group: Clinidium

Introduction

Protainoa is a monotypic subgenus with one species from western Cuba.

Characteristics

The antennal stylet is long, slender, and acuminate. Tufts are present on antennal segments VI-X. There are one or two temporal seta. The orbital groove is abbreviated posteriorly. The marginal groove of the pronotum is single. Angular and marginal setae are absent. The pronotum is elongate and narrowed anteriorly. The hind angle has a prominent tooth preceded by a pollinose pit. Sutural, parasutural, and intercalary striae are impressed and coarsely punctate. The remaining striae are reduced to rows of fine punctures. The metasternum and abdominal sterna I-III are occupied by a broad medial concavity. The female has enlarged lateral pits on sternum IV. The male's anterior trochanter is dentate. All femora of the male are tuberculate ventrally. The male has an inconspicuous ventral tooth on the anterior femur, and the base of the anterior tarsus is distad to the cleaning organ. The calcars are small, the middle one is longer, more slender, and more acute than the hind one.

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Dorsal aspect of head and pronotum of Clinidium (Protainoa) extrarium. Modified from Bell and Bell (1985). Copyright © 1985 Ross T. Bell and Joyce R. Bell.

Other Names for Clinidium extrarium

References

Bell, R. T. and J. R. Bell. 1985. Rhysodini of the World Part IV. Revisions of Rhyzodiastes and Clinidium, with new species in other genera (Coleoptera: Carabidae or Rhysodidae). Quaestiones Entomologicae 21(1): 1-172.

Bell, R. T. and J. R. Bell. 1995. The Rhysodini (Insecta: Coleoptera: Carabidae) of Cuba. Annals of Carnegie Museum 64(3): 185-195.

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University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, USA

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