Ochlerus Spinola, 1837

Castro-Huertas, Valentina, Grazia, Jocelia, Forero, Dimitri, Fernández, Fernando & Schwertner, Cristiano F., 2022, Stink bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae) of Colombia: An annotated checklist of species, Zootaxa 5097 (1), pp. 1-88 : 28

Ochlerus Spinola, 1837 [ Fig. 40 ]

The genus can be recognized by having the eyes prominent, the labium inserted before of the imaginary plane bisecting the head at anterior margin of the eyes; the apex of the labium reaching the abdominal sternites V, VI or VII, the labial segment II reaching the mesocoxae, the antennae is five segmented, the antennal segment I surpassing the apex of the head, the mandibular plates and the clypeus are subequal in length; the mandibular plates are unarmed, its apex is subacute or obliquely truncate; the anterolateral angles of the pronotum have a small tubercle, usually directed laterad; the scutellum is not constricted near the posterior end of the frenum, and the metasternum has a thin and weak carina ( Rolston 1992).

Figures

FIGURES 32‒47. Discocephalinae genera in Colombia. 32. Phoeacia sp. (MPUJ). 33. Coranda picipes (DAR). 34. Eritrachys antennata (MPUJ). 35. Herrichella thoracica (Holotype, BMNH). 36. Lincus rufospilotus (DAR). 37. Macropygium reticulare (MPUJ). 38. Melambyrsus hoplita (SMFD). 39. Neoadoxoplatys longirostra (holotype, AMNH) 40. Ochlerus sp. (ICN). 41. Orbatina fuliginia (DAR). 42. Paralincus bimaculatus (MPUJ). 43. Phereclus pluto (NHRS). 44. Schraderiellus cinctus (ICN). 45. Stalius tartareus (DAR). 46. Stapecolis bimaculatus (AMNH). 47. Xynocoris recavus (ICN). Scale bar: 5 mm.