Palaeoclaviger Reichensperger, 1930 : 379

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Palaeoclaviger Reichensperger, 1930: 379

Diagnosis. Length 2.0− 2.5 mm, head distinctly shorter than pronotum, longer than wide, eyes large, strongly prominent, rostrum triangular, with large epistome, pronotum as long as wide, strongly rugose, lacking foveae and median sulcus, elytra short, about 1.3 times as long as pronotum, lacking basal foveae, with almost entire sutural and discal striae, posterior corners rounded, lacking trichomes, with few long setae on posterior margin, midlegs modified in males, abdomen with deep transverse basal impression, paratergites with well-developed trichomes.

Antennae with antennomeres I minuscule, II small, III slightly longer than wide, IV −V elongate, V distinctly larger, terminal antennomere slightly longer than IV, about twice as long as wide, truncate at apex. Species included. Palaeoclaviger latispina Jeannel, 1953 ; P. uelensis Reichensperger, 1930 . Distribution. Democratic Republic of the Congo.