Aneuclis Förster, 1869

Khalaim, Andrey I., 2009, South African species of Aneuclis Förster, 1869 (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Tersilochinae), African Invertebrates 50 (1), pp. 123-136 : 124

Genus Aneuclis Förster, 1869

Type species: Isurgus rufipes Szépligeti, 1899 ( Thersilochus maritimus Thomson, 1889 ). Diagnosis: The genus includes small species with body length about 3.0 mm. Head and mesosoma more or less granulate, sometimes with smooth shining areas, impunctate or finely punctate. Head rather strongly narrowed behind eyes in dorsal view, temple distinctly shorter than eye width. Antenna filiform. Flagellum of Afrotropical species 14- or 15-segmented (13–23-segmented in Palaearctic species). Notaulus absent or weak, sometimes substituted by a short carina. Sternaulus absent or weak, in anterior part of mesopleuron. Propodeum with basal keel (sometimes indistinct) which is shorter than the apical area. Second recurrent vein interstitial or postfurcal. Brachial cell widely open at apex, with posterior part of postnervulus absent. First metasomal segment slender, with petiole more or less round in transverse section, with small isolated glymma (not joined by a furrow to ventral part of postpetiole) or without glymma. Ovipositor evenly upcurved, with shallow dorsal subapical depression, from short to very long.

All species are rather uniform and very few diagnostic characters are available. Males of Aneuclis are much more difficult to recognize than the females.