''Clivina'' is a genus of

ground beetle Ground beetles are a large, cosmopolitan distribution, cosmopolitan family (biology), 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 ...

native to the

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, the

Nearctic The Nearctic realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms constituting the Earth's land surface. The Nearctic realm covers most of North America, including Greenland, Central Florida, and the highlands of Mexico. The parts of North America ...

, the

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and

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. There are more than 600 described species in ''Clivina including

Clivina acutimentum ''Clivina acutimentum'' is a species of medium sized ground beetle which is native to Cambodia, North East and Central Thailand and North Vietnam Vietnam, officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (SRV), is a country at the eastern ...

Clivina australasiae ''Clivina australasiae'' is a species of ground beetle in the subfamily Scaritinae Scaritinae is a worldwide subfamily of beetles in the family Carabidae, containing more than 2400 species in over 140 genera. Scaritinae genera These 146 ...

and

Clivina breviuscula ''Clivina breviuscula'' is a species of ground beetle in the subfamily Scaritinae. It was described by Jules Putzeys Jules Antoine Adolphe Henri Putzeys (1 May 1809 – 2 January 1882) was a Belgian magistrate and an entomologist who took a sp ...

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External links

''Clivina'' at Fauna Europaea
* * {{Taxonbar, from=Q1380275 Scaritinae Carabidae genera

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