Taxon classification Animalia Coleoptera Carabidae

Genus Moirainpa Erwin, 1984

Type species.

Moirainpa amazona Erwin, 1984 .

Diagnosis.

Mentum without foveae; eyes reduced and pubescent, with a few large facets; labrum not covering mandibles; foretibia notched apicolaterally; elytron entire, with serrate humeral margin; ARG absent; body subdepressed, pubescent. ABL = 1.0 mm.

Distribution.

Known from várzea white water inundation forests of the upper to middle Amazon River drainage (Erwin 1984).