Clinidium Bechyneorum
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''Clinidium'' is a genus of wrinkled bark beetles in the subfamily
Rhysodinae Rhysodinae is a subfamily (sometimes called wrinkled bark beetles) in the family Carabidae. There are 19 genera and at least 380 described species in Rhysodinae. The group of genera making up Rhysodinae had been treated as the family Rhysodidae i ...
. Most species are
Neotropical The Neotropical realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms constituting Earth's land surface. Physically, it includes the tropical terrestrial ecoregions of the Americas and the entire South American temperate zone. Definition In biogeogra ...
, but some occur further north in North America and there is also one species in Europe ('' Clinidium canaliculatum'') and one in Japan. Two species are known from
Miocene The Miocene ( ) is the first epoch (geology), geological epoch of the Neogene Period and extends from about (Ma). The Miocene was named by Scottish geologist Charles Lyell; the name comes from the Greek words (', "less") and (', "new") and mea ...
amber. There are five subgenera:


Species

The genus contains the following species:


References

Carabidae genera Taxa named by William Kirby (entomologist) {{Rhysodinae-stub