Catapotia Thomson, 1860: 13 .

Type species: Catapotia laevissima Thomson, 1860 . Cremnodes Gerstaecker, 1858: 412 (nec Foerster).

This is a Neotropical genus with 5 species distributed from Central México to South America . One species in México.

6. C. laevissima Thomson, 1860 . Fig. 16.

Catapotia laevissima Thomson, 1860: 14; Gorham 1891: 148; Blackwelder 1945: 440; Strohecker 1953: 23.

Type locality: México.

Type material: syntypes probably in MNHN

Distribution: México: VER, SLP?*; Guatemala, Nicaragua, Panamá, Ecuador, Perú. One specimen in NMNH is labeled “Valles”, which probably refers to Ciudad Valles in eastern San Luis

Potosí. One of the two specimens examined was collected in orchids.