Claviger Preyssler, 1790 : 68

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Claviger Preyssler, 1790: 68 . Type genus of the supertribe.

Diagnosis (Jeannel, 1950: 60): Length 1.80−2.70 mm, head subcylindrical, clearly longer than wide and slightly shorter than pronotum, rostrum slightly rounded, eyes absent, pronotum longer than wide, with or without antebasal fovea, lacking any sulcus, with lateral depressions, elytra about as long as pronotum, bearing long trichomes at posterior corners, lacking basal foveae and striae, midlegs modified in males, abdomen with wide basal impression extended on disc of composite tergite in form of rectangle of various shape which is speciescharacteristic, first paratergites with trichomes. Antennae with antennomeres I −II small, flagellum variably shaped, in the nominal subgenus Claviger antennomeres III −V transverse or only slightly longer than wide, in the subgenus Clavifer La Porte, 1835 antennomeres III −V clearly elongate, III −IV much longer than V, terminal antennomere in both subgenera less than twice as long as wide.

Species included. Claviger (Claviger) barbarus Bedel, 1884 ; C. bartoni Mařan, 1936 ; C. duvali Saulcy, 1863 ; C. guilloti Payermhof, 1914 ; C. ibericus Motschulsky, 1844 ; C. lederi Reitter, 1877 ; C. nitidus Hampe, 1863 ; C.

piochardi brucki Saulcy, 1874; C. piochardi piochardi Saulcy, 1874 ; C. pouzaui pouzaui Saulcy, 1862 ; C. pouzaui validus Besuchet, 1961 ; C. pouzaui cobosi Mateu, 1954 ; C. testaceus perezi Reitter, 1881 ; C. testaceus persicus Bodemeyer, 1927 ; C. testaceus testaceus Preyssler, 1790 . Claviger (Clavifer) appeninus Baudi di Selve, 1870; C. bimaculatus Motschulsky, 1844 ; C. caspicus Reitter, 1881 ; C. ciscaucasicus Reitter, 1910 ; C. colchicus Motschulsky, 1837 ; C. elysius Reitter, 1884 ; C. emgei Reitter, 1885 ; C. handmanni Wasmann, 1898 ; C. intermedius Besuchet, 1961 ; C. justinae Reitter, 1887 ; C. katharinae Escherich, 1897 ; C. longicornis Müller, 1818 ; C. merkli Reitter, 1885 ; C. montandoni Raffray, 1905 ; C. nebrodensis Ragusa, 1871 ; C. oertzeni Reitter, 1885 ; C. olympicus Escherich, 1897 ; C. ottomanus Escherich, 1897 ; C. raffrayi Reitter, 1893 ; C. revelierei Saulcy,1874 ; C. saulcyi espanoli Mateu, 1954 ; C. saulcyi lucens Besuchet, 1961 ; C. saulcyi saulcyi Brisout, 1866 .

Note: for details of the distribution and references for all Claviger species see Schülke & Smetana (2015). Distribution. 39 species and subspecies in two subgenera, widely distributed in the western Palaearctic region from Morocco, Spain through Europe, Turkey to Caucasus and Iran.