Genus Clinidium Kirby, 1830 Ḥṣä 甲Ǥ

[85 species (incl. 2 fossil species); Palaearctic, Oriental, Nearctic and northern Neotropical Regions]

Kirby, 1830: 6 ( Clinidium; description; illustrations; 1 sp.); Westwood, 1835: 214 ( Clinidium; affinities; analogies); Lacordaire, 1854: 388 ( Clinidium; characteristics); LeConte, 1875: 163 ( Clinidium; characteristics); Reitter, 1882: 140 ( Clinidium; key to genera), 141 (key to species); Lewis, 1888: 83 ( Clinidium [part.]; characteristics), 85 (list); Grouvelle, 1903: 90 ( Clinidium [part.]; key to genera), 100 (key to species), 145 (list); Reitter, 1922: 55 ( Clinidium; key to genera), 57 (key to species); Winkler, 1924: 240 ( Clinidium; list; distribution); Arrow, 1942: 173 ( Clinidium subdiv. Brevisulcati [part.]; key to genera), 176 (key to species); Hincks, 1950: 12 ( Clinidium [part.]; catalogue); Bell, 1970: 305 ( Clinidium; characteristics; key to species; illustrations); Nakane, 1973: 5 ( Clinidium [part.]; key to species; illustrations); Bell & Bell, 1975: 67 ( Clinidium; key to species of the USA); Bell & Bell, 1978: 62 ( Clinidium; characteristics; key to subgenera; distribution; illustrations); Kryzhanovskij, 1983: 36 ( Clinidium; characteristics; distribution; biology; illustrations); Bell & Bell, 1985: 59 ( Clinidium; key to subgenera; illustrations); Bell, 2003: 78 ( Clinidium; list; 3 spp.; distribution); Beutel, 2005: 146 ( Clinidium; in ge-neric list; distribution); Lorenz, 2005: 157 ( Clinidium; world list; 76 spp.); Beutel, 2016: 191 ( Clinidium; in generic list; distribution); Huber, Marggi & L̂bl, 2017: 29 ( Clinidium; list; 3 spp.; distribution).

Type species: Clinidium guildingii Kirby, 1830, by monotypy.