Catopocerus Motschulsky, 1870

Peck, Stewart B. & Cook, Joyce, 2011, Systematics, distributions and bionomics of the Catopocerini (eyeless soil fungivore beetles) of North America (Coleoptera: Leiodidae: Catopocerinae) 3077, Zootaxa 3077 (1), pp. 1-118 : 13

Genus Catopocerus Motschulsky, 1870

Catopocerus Motschulsky, 1870: 351 . Type species, original combination: Catopocerus politus Motschulsky, 1870 , by monotypy.

Diagnosis. Antennal segments 7, 9, and 10 each bear several tooth-like serrations. Metaventrite and first visible abdominal sternite with setose paired impressions. Apex of male mesotibia bearing a patch of fine, dense spines on inner margin. Male metatibia with an excavation on inner margin at apex bearing dense setae. Spiculum gastrale absent. Parameres separate from basal piece. Parameres lack apical setae. Anterior apophysis absent from female sternite 8. Spermatheca globose. Larvae with entire ligula and undivided maxillary lobe.

Distribution and diversity. The genus is known to contain only the following five species from the eastern United States, ranging from the southern Appalachian Mountains and adjacent uplands of northern Alabama and Georgia, northwards to the District of Colombia and southern Pennsylvania (south of the limit of Pleistocene glaciation). No new species and no new distributional records have been seen since the revision of Peck (1975).

Key to species. See Peck (1975).