Genus Belminus Stål

Belminus Stål 1859, p. 101. Type species: Belminus rugulosus Stål, 1859

Comments. There are 8 known species of Belminus distributed in Peru ( B. peruvianus Herrer, Lent & Wygodzinsky), Brazil ( B. laportei Lent, Jurberg & Carcavallo), Venezuela ( B. pittieri Osuna & Ayala, B. rugulosus), Colombia ( B. corredori Galvão & Ángulo, B. ferroae Sandoval, Pabón, Jurberg & Galvão, B. herreri Lent & Wygodzinsky, B. rugulosus), Panama ( B. herreri), Costa Rica ( B. costaricensis Herrer, Lent & Wygodzinsky), and Mexico ( B. costaricensis) (Lent & Wygodzinsky 1979; Galvão et al. 2003; Sandoval 2007). Species belonging to this genus have been sporadically collected in evergreen tropical forests in which the annual mean temperature is between 20–25° C and the annual precipitation average is about 2000 mm (Carcavallo et al. 1995, Gaunt & Miles 2000).