1971] 
Bar r — Micratopus 
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the deeply cleft labrum, the single pair of supraorbital punctures, 
the form of the maxillary and labial palps, the loosely aggregated 
umbilicate series of 9 punctures, the subtruncate elytral apexes, the 
absence of both the apical recurrent groove and a twisted epipleural 
fold, and the testaceous color. In view of the radically modified 
aedeagus of Micratopus , however, I prefer to retain both genera. 
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