Cleruchus Enock 1909

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).