ALEOCHARINAE, Fleming, 1821

Peck, Stewart B., 2011, The diversity and distributions of the beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera) of the northern Leeward Islands, Lesser Antilles (Anguilla, Antigua, Barbuda, Nevis, Saba, St. Barthélemy, St. Eustatius, St. Kitts, and St. Martin-St. Maarten, Insecta Mundi 2011 (159), pp. 1-54 : 18

SUBFAMILY ALEOCHARINAE

TRIBE MESOPORINI

Oligota minuta (Cameron) 1931: 82 ; Blackwelder 1943: 537; Frank 1972: 136; Frank et al. 1992:377; Ivie et al. 2008b: 241; Turnbow and Thomas 2008; 52. Distribution. Antigua, Bahamas, Cuba, Grenada, Jamaica, Montserrat, St. Croix, St. Kitts. US Virgin Islands. USA (FL), Colombia, Trinidad, Tobago, Surinam and Guyana to Brazil; widespread New World. Notes. This has been used as a biocontrol agent as a predator on the tetranychid plant-feeding cassava green mite, Mononychellus tanajoa (Bondar) , and is also known to feed on other tetranychid genera and species.