CLIDICINI CASEY, 1897 SENSU

CLIDICINI CASEY, 1897 SENSU View in CoL NOV.

Type genus: Clidicus Laporte, 1832 .

Diagnosis

Clidicini , restricted here to Clidicus and † Palaeoleptochromus (which may be a synonym of the former), are defined by the following unique apomorphies: some setae on frons and vertex conspicuously long and erect among much shorter and denser basic vestiture, and one or two conspicuously long and erect ventral setae present in basal half of profemur; and a set of synapomorphies (known in other tribes, but in a different combination): only scape enlarged and longer than head; head capsule about as long as broad or slightly transverse; antennal insertions broadly separated; occipital constriction about half as broad as width of head or narrower; eyes small, much shorter than tempora; maxillary palpomere 4 subtriangular; pronotum with posterior collar separated by transverse row of pits; mesoventral intercoxal process narrow, carinate, with subparallel lateral margins; admetacoxal margin of metaventrite with an angulate expansion; elytral rows of punctures distinct; abdominal sternite 6 not emarginate.