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Belminus laportei sp.n. from the Amazon Region (Hemiptera: Reduviidae: Triatominae)

The new species resembles B.herreri Lent & Wygodzinsky, 1979 from which it differs by the following characters: the color pattern, the rostral segments ratio, the shape of the post-ocular region of the head and the general shape of the pronotum, without the conspicuous angle in the lateral side where fore and hind lobes joint.

Belminus laportei sp.n.; Triatominae; Amazonian Basin


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