Clidicus

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Coleopterida
Ordo: Coleoptera
Subordo: Polyphaga
Infraordo: Staphyliniformia
Superfamilia: Staphylinoidea

Familia: Staphylinidae
Subfamilia: Scydmaeninae
Supertribus: Mastigitae
Tribus: Clidicini
Genus: Clidicus
Species: C. abbotensis – C. aliquantulus – †C. archaicus – C. armipes – C. asymmetricus – C. bellator – C. beroni – C. bicorniger – C. bidens – †C. burmiticus – C. chinensis – C. crocodylus – C. dohertyi – C. doriae – C. forceps – C. formicarius – C. ganglbaueri – C. gracilipes – C. grandis – C. interfector – C. kalis – C. laticeps – C. loebli – C. mawarensis – C. mendax – C. minilankanus – C. minutus – C. monstrosus – C. mussardi – C. mysorensis – C. occisor – C. omoios – C. qiuae – C. quadricollis – C. rufescens – C. shavrini – C. termitophilus – C. tonkinensis – C. yingjiangus
Name

Clidicus Laporte, 1832: 396

Type species: Clidicus grandis Laporte, 1832, fixed by monotypy.

Synonymy

Erineus Walker, 1858 [Synonymized with Clidicus by Pascoe, 1863]
Type species: Erineus monstrosus Walker, 1858, fixed by monotypy.
†Cretoleptochromus Cai & Huang, 2016 [new synonym in Jałoszyński et al., 2018: 10]

References
Primary references

Laporte [de Castelnau] F.L.N.C. 1832. Mémoire de cinquante espèces nouvelles ou peu connues d'Insectes. Annales de la Société entomologique de France 1: 386–415. BHL Reference page. [original description: p. 396]
Jałoszyński, P., Brunke, A.J., Yamamoto, S. & Takahashi, Y. 2018. Evolution of Mastigitae: Mesozoic and Cenozoic fossils crucial for reclassification of extant tribes (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Scydmaeninae). Zoological journal of the Linnean Society 2018(zly010): 1–30. DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zly010 Reference page. [syn. nov.: p. 10]

Additional references

Cheng, Z-F. & Yin, Z-W. 2019 Two new species of Clidicus Laporte, 1832 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Scydmaeninae) from Yunnan, China. Zootaxa 4623(2): 321–330. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4623.2.6 Paywall Reference page.
Jałoszyński, P.; Hlavac, P.; Nomura, S. 2003: Contribution to the knowledge of the genus Clidicus (Coleoptera, Scydmaenidae), with descriptions of four new species from Vietnam and Laos. Bulletin of the National Science Museum (A), 29: 21–38.
Jałoszyński, P. 2009: Clidicus crocodylus n. sp. from Mindanao, the first species of the Mastigitae from the Philippines (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Scydmaeninae). Genus:, 20: 203–207. ISSN: 0867-1710 PDF
Jałoszyński, P. 2018. World genera of Mastigitae: review of morphological structures and new ecological data (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Scydmaeninae). Zootaxa 4453(1): 1–119. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4453.1.1 Reference page. [diagnosis, characteristics, distribution, remarks: p. 40]
O'Keefe, S.T.; Monteith, G.B. 2000: Clidicus abbotensis O'Keefe, a new species of Scydmaenidae (Coleoptera: Staphylinoidea) from Australia with description of the larva. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, 46: 211–223.
Zhou, D-Y. & Li, L-Z. 2015. Clidicus chinensis n. sp. from Hainan, the first species of the Mastigitae from China (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Scydmaeninae). Zootaxa 3986(4): 483–487. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3986.4.7. Preview (PDF) Reference page.

Clidicus is a rove beetle genus in the family Staphylinidae.
Species

Clidicus abbotensis
Clidicus aliquantulus
Clidicus bellator
Clidicus crocodylus
Clidicus formicarius
Clidicus grandis
Clidicus laticeps
Clidicus loebli
Clidicus monstrosus
Clidicus mussardi
Clidicus mysorensis
Clidicus omoios
Clidicus quadricollis
Clidicus rufescens
Clidicus taphrocephalus
Clidicus termitophilus
Clidicus tonkinensis
†Clidicus balticus