Genus Florus Distant

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.