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(Figs 14, 19, 34). Size: See Appendix 1. Very small, ABL = 4.4–4.6 mm, SBL = 3.77–3.88 mm, TW = 1.49–1.58 mm. Color: see diagnosis, above. Luster: Head, pronotum, elytra, and legs shiny; microsculpture effaced. Head: Labrum quadrate and apico-medially emarginate. Eye moderately large, moderately convex. Gena moderately long, straight. Frons, occiput, and genae glabrous. Prothorax: Broad, narrowed slightly toward base, margin slightly explanate to hind angle, angle about right, not dentate; surface punctulate, punctures widespread, glabrous. Pterothorax: Elytron moderately convex, intervals slightly convex, interneurs striato- punctate, apex moderately oblique and straight, sutural apex narrowly rounded. Metasternum sparsely setiferous in male. Legs: Normal in both sexes; foreleg femur unmodified (Fig. 19); trochanter narrowly rounded. Abdomen: Abdominal sterna moderately setiferous; sternum IV of male with narrow and dense patch of decumbent setae. Male genitalia: Median lobe (Fig. 34) elongate and narrow with ostium moderately elongate, over half the length of the median lobe; apex with a long narrow distal end, straight in lateral aspect and narrowly rounded, ventral margin proximal to apex straight; endophallus with complexly folded tracheal fields; phallobase hooded, opening more or less 15 degrees off axis of shaft. Parameres large, left a third longer than the right, both broadly rounded, asetose. Female genitalia: Not investigated; however, it is likely similar to that illustrated on Plate 11.
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Erwin T (2011) Rainforest understory beetles of the Neotropics, Mizotrechus Bates 1872, a generic synopsis with descriptions of new species from Central America and northern South America (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Perigonini) ZooKeys 145: 79–128
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