''Clinidium humile'' is a species of

ground beetle Ground beetles are a large, cosmopolitan family of beetles, the Carabidae, with more than 40,000 species worldwide, around 2,000 of which are found in North America and 2,700 in Europe. As of 2015, it is one of the 10 most species-rich animal fami ...

in the subfamily Rhysodinae. It was described by R.T. Bell & J.R. Bell in 1985. It is known from "New Granada", which could be in either present-day Colombia or Panama. What now is the

holotype A holotype is a single physical example (or illustration) of an organism, known to have been used when the species (or lower-ranked taxon) was formally described. It is either the single such physical example (or illustration) or one of seve ...

of ''Clinidium humile'' was originally identified by Louis Alexandre Auguste Chevrolat as ''

Clinidium cavicolle ''Clinidium cavicolle'' is a species of ground beetle in the subfamily Rhysodinae. It was described by Louis Alexandre Auguste Chevrolat in 1873. It is known from Colombia; there is an uncertain record from Brazil too. There is uncertainty as r ...

'' of "the other sex". The holotype is a male measuring in length.

References

Clinidium Beetles of South America Beetles described in 1985 {{Rhysodinae-stub