CLERUCHOIDES Lin & Huber, 2007

(Figs 75–80)

Cleruchoides Lin & Huber in Lin et al., 2007: 53. Type species: Cleruchoides noackae Lin & Huber, 2007, by original designation.

Diagnosis. Face light coloured, with distinct black bar extending obliquely from each torulus to mouth margin (Fig. 78); mandibles short, directed ventrally, apparently with only one short tooth and not meeting when closed (Figs 75a,b); funicle segments longer than wide, clava 1-segmented (Fig. 76); fore wing widening towards apex and with a distinct lobe behind venation and with a distinct constriction between the apex of the parastigma and base of the stigmal vein (Fig. 77); metasoma with slightly crenulate transverse row of sculpture near posterior margin of each tergum (Fig. 80a).

Remarks. Cleruchoides belongs to the Cleruchus group of genera. The fore wing is wider than in Cleruchus, with a distinct lobe posterior to apex of venation. The black line ventral to each torulus is diagnostic, at least for the only known species (introduced from the Old World) in the Neotropical region.

Neotropical hosts. Hemiptera: Thaumastocoridae.

Important reference. Lin et al. (2007).