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Description

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Size average for the genus, ABL 5.4–6.1 mm, TW 2.3–2.7 mm. Color. Head, prothorax, and elytra piceous. Labrum, mandibles, mentum, and submentum brunneopiceous. Antennae, legs, and remaining mouthparts testaceous. Head. HL 0.7–0.9 mm, HW 0.8–1.0 mm. One supraorbital seta present over each eye. Apices of mandibles slightly curved, at less than 45 degree angle to mandibular midline. Apical maxillary palpomere length 5 × width at base. Mentum with triangular lateral lobes. Thorax. Pronotum (Fig. 9c) with distinct median impression, one distinct basal fovea laterad; no seta located on apicolateral pronotal bead; one posterior seta present on posterior bead near posterior angle; pronotal anterior margin convex; pronotal width 1.1–1.3 × pronotal length. Elytral length 1.3–1.5 × combined elytral width. Legs. Protibia with three distinct, stout spines confined to distal half of lateral margin; distance between spines 1 and 2 slightly less than distance between spines 2 and 3 (Fig. 10a). Genitalia, male. Median lobe curved sharply, between forty-five and ninety degrees, with respect to basal 1/3, remaining 2/3 with continuing curvature; not expanded apically. Left paramere complexly curved into an “S” shape with basal projection (Figure 11a). Genitalia, female. Spermatheca with 2/3 length thin, gradually expanding approximately 1/3 below apex, ended with broad bulb (Fig. 12a).
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Grzymala T, Will K (2014) Taxonomic review of Cratocerus Dejean, 1829 (Coleoptera, Carabidae) with the description of six new species ZooKeys 416: 77–112
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Distribution

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This species is distributed (Fig. 13) throughout French Guiana, Peru, and Ecuador.
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Grzymala T, Will K (2014) Taxonomic review of Cratocerus Dejean, 1829 (Coleoptera, Carabidae) with the description of six new species ZooKeys 416: 77–112
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Traci L. Grzymala
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