Amitus Haldeman, 1850

Diagnosis (Modified after Masner and Huggert, 1989):

Body black, short (usually less than 1.5 mm), dorsoventrally flattened; antennal formula 8-10; female antenna with abrupt, compact ovoid clava resulting from the fusion of A8-A10; male antenna with specialized paddle-shaped area on A4; propodeum partly covered with foamy structures; forewings without distinct veins; metasoma short, subsessile; T2 usually with a fan of striae anterolaterally.