Three species of Clitenella Laboissière, 1927 are redescribed: Clitenella fulminans (Faldermann, 1835), Clitenella punctata Laboissière, 1927, and Clitenella unicolor Samoderzhenkov, 1988. Two new synonymies are proposed: Clitenella yunnana (Yang and Li, 1997) is placed in synonymy with C. punctata, and Clitenella sukarnoi Mohamedsaid, 2001 is synonymized with C. unicolor. A lectotype is designated for Galleruca fulminans Faldermann, 1835. New distributional records are given for C. punctata and C. unicolor. New biological information is provided for C. fulminans. A key to the species of Clitenella is provided.