Claviger

Belongs within: Clavigeritae.

Claviger is a western Palaearctic genus of eyeless pselaphine beetles (Raffray 1904).

Characters (Raffray 1904): Head provided with a neck, not engaged in prothorax. Eyes absent. Antennae of 6 articles, short and thick with articles 3, 4, 5, transverse, or more or less elongated, with articles 3, 4, 5, more or less long, last article always longer than preceding one. Elytra more or less short and triangular, shoulders absent or almost so, their external posterior angle strongly fasciculated. Abdomen composed of 3 dorsal segments visible above, with variable transverse impression at base and oval-elongated median impression, or at least two deep strioles indicating location of missing impression; lateral margin strongly fasciculated at base.

Claviger Preyssler 1790 [incl. Clavifer Laporte 1835]R04
    |--C. antoniae Reitter 1893R04
    |--C. apenninus Baudi 1869R04
    |--C. araxidis Reitter 1890R04
    |--C. barbarus Bedel 1884R04
    |--C. bruckiR04
    |--C. caspicus Reitter 1881R04
    |--C. colchicus [incl. C. bimaculatus Motschulsky 1844]R04
    |--C. duvali Saulcy 1863R04
    |--C. elysius Reitter 1884R04
    |--C. emgei Reitter 1885R04
    |--C. handmanni Wasmann 1898R04
    |--C. ibericus Motschulsky 1844R04
    |--C. justinae Reitter 1887R04
    |--C. katharinae Escherich 1897R04
    |--C. lederi Reitter 1877R04
    |--C. longicornisR04
    |--C. lusitanicusR04
    |--C. merkli Reitter 1885R04
    |--C. montandoni Raffray 1904R04
    |--C. nebrodensisR04
    |--C. nitidus Hampe 1863 [incl. C. carniolicus Reitter 1881, C. kaufmanni Reitter 1894]R04
    |--C. oertzeni Reitter 1885R04
    |--C. olympicus Escherich 1897R04
    |--C. ottomanus Escherich 1897R04
    |--C. perezi Saulcy 1875R04
    |--C. piochardiR04
    |--C. pouzaui Saulcy 1862R04
    |--C. pyrenaeus Raffray 1887R04
    |--C. raffrayi Reitter 1893R04
    |--C. reveliereiR04
    |--C. saulcyi Brisout 1866R04
    `--C. testaceus Preyssler 1790 [incl. C. foveolatus Müller 1818]R04

*Type species of generic name indicated

References

[R04] Raffray, A. 1904. Genera et catalogue des psélaphides [part III]. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 73: 401–476, pls 1–3.