Cleruchus, Enock, 1909

Huber, John T., Read, Jennifer D. & Triapitsyn, Serguei V., 2024, Illustrated key to the genera and catalogue of Mymaridae (Hymenoptera) in the Neotropical region, Zootaxa 5557 (1), pp. 1-263 : 44

CLERUCHUS Enock, 1909

( Figs 81–86 )

Cleruchus Enock, 1909: 453 . Type species: Cleruchus pluteus Enock, 1909 , by monotypy. See Huber et al. (2020) for generic synonyms and their type species.

Diagnosis. Head more or less produced anteriorly, in lateral view almost triangular; face with faint subantennal sulci ( Fig.81a ); ocelli forming a low triangle with lateral ocelli close to posterolateral corners of vertex ( Fig. 86 ); funicle segments often about as long as wide and clava 1-segmented ( Fig. 82 ); fore wing narrow, parallel sided ( Fig. 83 ); ovipositor short, usually originating in apical half or less of gaster ( Fig. 85 ).

Remarks. Cleruchus belongs to the Cleruchus group of genera. It differs from Cleruchoides mainly in having the funicle segments often quadrate and a narrower fore wing. It differs from Platystethynium by the scutellum not longitudinally divided medially and the propodeum without Y-like submedian sulci. Cleruchus usually has the clava entire whereas Platystethynium has it 2-segmented (3-segmented in some extralimital species).

Neotropical hosts. Unknown.

Important reference. Huber & Triapitsyn (2017).

Figures

FIGURES 81–83. Cleruchus. 81a, head, anterior; 81b, head, posterior; 82, antenna; 83, wings.

FIGURES 84–86. Cleruchus. 84, mesosoma, dorsal; 85, metasoma, ventral; 86, head, dorsal.