''Claviger'' is a genus of beetles in the family

Staphylinidae The rove beetles are a family (biology), family (Staphylinidae) of beetles, primarily distinguished by their short elytra (wing covers) that typically leave more than half of their abdominal segments exposed. With over 66,000 species in thousand ...

, subfamily

Pselaphinae Pselaphinae are a subfamily of beetles in the family Staphylinidae, the rove beetles. The group was originally regarded as a separate family named Pselaphidae. Newton and Thayer (1995) placed them in the Omaliine group of the family Staphylinida ...

. About 40 species and subspecies are described, divided into two subgenera, ''Claviger (Claviger)'' and ''Claviger (Clavifer)''. ''Claviger'' displays unusual biological adaptations to

myrmecophily thumb , Myrmecophilous aphids being tended by ants Myrmecophily ( , ) consists of positive, mutualistic, interspecies associations between ants and a variety of other organisms, such as plants, other arthropods, and fungi. It may also incl ...

. This pselaphid is of palearctic distribution.

Species

Species list: * ''Claviger (Clavifer) apenninus'' Baudi di Selve, 1869 * '' Claviger araxidis'' Reitter, 1890 * ''Claviger barbarus'' Bedel, 1884 * ''Claviger bartoni'' Mařan, 1936 * ''Claviger caspicus'' Reitter, 1882 * ''Claviger ciscaucasicus'' Reitter, 1910 * ''Claviger colchicus'' Motschulsky, 1837 * ''Claviger duvali'' Saulcy, 1863 * ''Claviger (Clavifer) elysius'' Reitter, 1884 * ''Claviger emgei'' Reitter, 1885 * ''Claviger guilloti'' Peyerimhoff, 1915 * ''Claviger (Clavifer) handmanni'' Wasmann, 1898 * ''Claviger ibericus'' Motschulsky, 1844 * ''Claviger intermedius'' Besuchet, 1961 * ''Claviger justinae'' Reitter, 1887 * ''Claviger katharinae'' Escherich, 1897 * ''Claviger lederi'' Reitter, 1877 * ''Claviger (Clavifer) longicornis'' P.W.J. Müller, 1818 * ''Claviger (Clavifer) merkli'' Reitter, 1885 * ''Claviger montandoni'' Raffray, 1905 * ''Claviger nebrodensis'' Ragusa, 1871 * ''Claviger nitidus'' Hampe, 1863 * ''Claviger oertzeni'' Reitter, 1885 * ''Claviger olympicus'' Escherich, 1897 * ''Claviger ottomanus'' Escherich, 1897 * ''Claviger piochardi'' Saulcy, 1874 ** ''Claviger piochardi brucki'' Saulcy 1874 ** ''Claviger piochardi piochardi'' Saulcy, 1874 * ''Claviger pouzaui'' Saulcy, 1862 ** ''Claviger pouzaui cobosi'' Mateu, 1954 ** ''Claviger pouzaui pouzaui'' Saulcy, 1862 ** ''Claviger pouzaui validus'' Besuchet, 1961 * ''Claviger pyrenaeus'' Raffray, 1887 * ''Claviger raffrayi'' Reitter, 1893 * ''Claviger (Clavifer) revelierei'' Saulcy, 1874 * ''Claviger saulcyi'' Brissout de Barneville, 1866 ** ''Claviger saulcyi espanoli'' Mateu, 1954 ** ''Claviger saulcyi lucens'' Besuchet, 1961 ** ''Claviger saulcyi saulcyi'' Brissout de Barneville, 1866 * ''Claviger (Claviger) testaceus'' Preyssler, 1790 ** ''Claviger testaceus persicus'' B. Bodemeyer, 1927 ** ''Claviger testaceus testaceus'' Preyssler, 1790 ** ''Claviger testaceus perezii'' Reitter, 1881

References

Pselaphinae genera {{staphylinidae-stub

Species

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