Taxon classification Animalia Coleoptera Carabidae

Genus Micratopus Casey, 1914

Type species.

Blemus aenescens (LeConte, 1848) .

Diagnosis.

Mentum without foveae; labrum bilobed, covering mandibles; head with single pair of supraorbital setae; elytra truncate; terminal abdominal ventrite of both male and female with four long setae, the lateral pair sickle-shaped. ABL = 1.2-3.0 mm.

Distribution.

Often abundant at lights, this speciose and underdescribed genus is known from southern North America to northern South America and the Caribbean (Erwin 1991, Erwin et al. 2002).