ERYTHMELUS Enock, 1909

(Figs 388–419)

Erythmelus Enock, 1909: 454. Type species: Erythmelus goochi Enock, 1909, by monotypy.

Parallelaptera Enock, 1909: 454. Type species: Parallelaptera panis Enock, 1909, by monotypy. Synonymy by Schauff, 1984a: 45.

Enaesius Enock, 1909: 456. Type species: Enaesius agilis Enock, 1909, by subsequent designation by Gahan & Fagan, 1923: 50. Synonymy by Debauche. 1948: 192.

Anthemiella Girault, 1911 [90]: 185. Type species: Anthemiella rex Girault, 1911, by original designation. Synonymy by Schauff, 1984a: 45; previous synonymy under Parallelaptera by Girault, 1912 [112]: 297.

Erythmelus (Erythmelellus) Viggiani & Jesu, 1985: 487. Type species: Erythmelus lygivorus Viggiani & Jesu, 1985, by original designation.

Diagnosis. Body length 370–1590 μm; 330–1170 in Triapitsyn et al. (2007). Head in lateral view with gena short (Fig. 396) or absent (Figs 388, 389, 403) so head appearing thin and long; mandible (in both sexes) reduced to small stub, without teeth (Fig. 406); maxillae together in posterior view distinctly longer than wide (Figs 402); mesosoma in lateral view with dorsellum slightly overhanging propodeum (Figs 396, 408); propodeum medially divided by a longitudinal sulcus (Fig. 395, 407); gaster in lateral view with hypopygium long, extending posteriorly at least to apex of gaster (Figs 388, 389, 398, 413).

Discussion. Schauff (1984) related Erythmelus to Anaphes, based on the propodeum with a median longitudinal sulcus, but otherwise the two genera are structurally very different.

Nearctic hosts. Hemiptera: Miridae, Tingidae.

Important reference. Triapitsyn et al. (2007).