Florus Distant, 1884

Ferreira, Paulo Sérgio Fiuza, Martins, David Dos Santos, Ferreira, Luciano Santana Fiuza & Fornazier, Maurício José, 2024, Synopsis of Miridae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) in Atlantic Forest Dominion, Espírito Santo State, Brazil: keys, diagnoses, new species, plant associations, and geographic distribution. Part I: Bryocorinae, Cylapinae and Deraeocorinae., Zootaxa 5468 (2), pp. 201-254 : 245

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Genus Florus Distant View in CoL

Type species: Florus insolitus Distant, 1884:301 . Monotypic. Florus : Carvalho 1957:46 (catalog); Schaffner & Carvalho 1985 A:312 (key to species).

Diagnosis. Small species with an oval or rounded shape and a very broad lateral embolium. Antennal segment I with the same length as the vertex width. Pronotum conspicuously convex and curled towards the head and lateral margins.

Remarks. Schaffner & Carvalho (1985) produced a key to the six known species of Florus . Florus peruanus Carvalho, 1985 , and F. panamensis Carvalho & Costa, 1995 , were added later.

References

Carvalho, J. C. M. (1957) A catalogue of the Miridae of the world. Part I. Arquivos do Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro, 44, 1 - 158.

Carvalho, J. C. M. (1985) Mirideos neotropicais, CCXLIX: Especies novas da tribo Hyaliodini Carvalho & Drake (Hemiptera). Revista Brasileira de Biologia, 44 (3), 363 - 376. https: // doi. org / 10.1590 / S 0101 - 81751985000400001

Carvalho, J. C. M. & Costa L. A. A. (1995) Mirideos Neotropicais, CDI: Novo genero e novas especies da America Central (Hemiptera). Revista Brasileira de Biologia, 55 (3), 355 - 358.

Distant, W. L. (1884) Insect. Rhynchota. Hemiptera-Heteroptera. Vol. I. In: Godman, F. D. C. & Salvin, O. (Eds.), Biologia Centrali-Americana. Published for the editor by R. H. Porter, London, pp. 265 - 304.

Schaffner, J. C. & Carvalho, J. C. M. (1985) A new genus and new species of Deraeocorinae from Mexico and Panama (Hemiptera: Miridae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 87, 308 - 316.