Belminus corredori Galvão & Angulo, 2006

Gil-Santana, Hélcio R. & Galvão, Cleber, 2013, Description of the male genitalia of Belminus rugulosus Stål and Belminus corredori Galvão & Angulo, and comments on the holotype of Parabelminus yurupucu Lent & Wygodzinsky (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Triatominae: Bolboderini), Zootaxa 3746 (4), pp. 587-596 : 589-590

Belminus corredori Galvão & Angulo, 2006

Belminus corredori was described based on two males and five females collected in the municipality of San Gil, Santander, Colombia, between 2002 and 2004 (Galvão & Angulo 2006). The authors furnished many details about the area of collection and a thorough description of the adults, but without describing the male genitalia, which is here described based on examination of the male paratype (Fig. 1).

DESCRIPTION OF MALE GENITALIA (Figs. 2–13). Eighth sternite sinuous on posterior margin (Fig. 4). Pygophore and parameres brownish; with a short wide ventrally darkened midline stripe on pygophore (Fig. 2). Exposed portion of pygophore subhexagonal, with small shallow rounded depressions aligned in somewhat regular lines, and sparse curved yellowish bristles (Fig. 4). Median process of pygophore directed upward, just below the paramere apices (Figs. 3, 5); subtriangular, with adjacent sparse pilosity (Figs. 3, 6). Parameres (Figs. 3, 5, 7–8) symmetrical, a little curved in median portion, with a small tooth on apical portion, curved bristles on outer face and a few straight hairs on inner face near the apical tooth; lumpy integument, especially in outer margin, except in basal portion. Phallus (Figs. 9–13). Articulatory apparatus with relatively short basal arms, a little longer than wide; basal bridge very short (Fig. 11). Pedicel long, somewhat narrower at basal portion, just a little longer than dorsal phallothecal plate; gonopore process somewhat enlarged at basal portion, very long (Figs. 10–11). Dorsal phallothecal plate ovoid; apical portion largely rounded (Fig. 11). Struts as a pair of elongated arms, subcylindrical, joined at bases and apices (Fig. 12); inner portion of struts bearing two longitudinal subparallel somewhat sclerotized ridges (Fig. 11). Median distal process [“vesica” sensu authors] located near apex of endosoma, just behind apical portion of phallothecal plate; hemispherical, with its margins prominent (Fig. 13).

MATERIAL EXAMINED: 1 male P ARATYPE: COLÔMBIA, Santander, municipality San Gil, locality Puente Tierra, 28.VI.2002 / B. corredori, C. Galvão det., 2004, N° FIOCRUZ 3047.

PLATE 3. Figs. 11–13, Belminus corredori , male genitalia, 11, phallus extended, dorsal view, 12, struts, 13, median distal process.