Catapotia Thomson, 1860 : 13

Arriaga-Varela, Emmanuel, Tomaszewska, Wioletta & Navarrete-Heredia, José Luis, 2007, A synopsis of the Endomychidae (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea) of México, Zootaxa 1594, pp. 1-38 : 7

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.

Figures

FIGURES 15 – 18. Endomychidae species recorded from México. 15, Bystus limbatus (Gorham) (3.3 mm). 16, Catapotia laevissima Thomson (3.1 mm). 17, Exysma laevigata Gorham (1.7 mm). 18, Rhymbomicrus hemisphaericuss (Champion) (1.0 mm).