Cleruchus Enock, 1909

Manickavasagam, Sagadai, Triapitsyn, Serguei V. & Palanivel, Selvaraj, 2018, Five new species of Cleruchus from the Oriental region and report of Anaphes quinquearticulatus (Hymenoptera: Mymaridae) from India, Zootaxa 4387 (1), pp. 134-156 : 135

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4387.1.6

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5963572

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scientific name

Cleruchus Enock, 1909
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Cleruchus Enock, 1909 View in CoL View at ENA

Comments. Detailed taxonomic history of Cleruchus , including synonymy, is given in Triapitsyn (2014a), with Bakkendorfia Mathot subsequently synonymized under Cleruchus by Huber & Triapitsyn (2017).

Diagnosis. Body dorso-ventrally flattened; female funicle 6-segmented and clava entire ( Fig. 2 View FIGURES 2–6 ); mandible uni- or bidentate; fore wing more or less parallel-sided, usually knife-like ( Fig. 3 View FIGURES 2–6 ), at least about 8× as long as wide; femora slightly swollen; ovipositor usually short and often arising in apical third of gaster ( Noyes & Valentine 1989 and Lin et al. 2007).

Cleruchus View in CoL belongs to the Cleruchus View in CoL group of genera, which includes Ceratanaphes Noyes & Valentine View in CoL , Cleruchoides Lin & Huber , Cleruchus Enock View in CoL , Cybomymar Noyes & Valentine View in CoL , Nesomymar Valentine View in CoL , Paracmotemnus Noyes & Valentine View in CoL , Prionaphes Hincks View in CoL , and Pseudocleruchus Donev & Huber (Lin et al. 2007) View in CoL , as well as, at least, Apoxypteron Noyes & Valentine View in CoL and Platystethynium Ogloblin. It View in CoL is similar to Cleruchoides Lin & Huber , according to Lin et al. (2007), in having a fore wing disc that is mostly bare, with only one or two rows of microtrichia, but can be differentiated by the fore wing being parallel-sided, knife-like, and at least 8× as long as wide, with the posterior margin having a weak lobe behind the apex of venation (fore wing with anterior and posterior margins diverging, about 6× as long as wide, and posterior margin distinctly lobed behind the apex of venation in Cleruchoides ). Cleruchus View in CoL is also close to Pseudocleruchus View in CoL from which it can be differentiated based on characters given in Pricop (2011).

Unlike in most other genera of Mymaridae View in CoL except a few genera like Mymar Curtis View in CoL , males of Cleruchus View in CoL are often diagnostically important—e.g., the number of flagellar segments was used by Triapitsyn (2014a) in his key to the Palearctic species of the genus.

Biology. The known hosts for Cleruchus so far are Curculionidae ( Schauff 1989; Barnes 2014), Cleridae (Huber 1986) , and Ciidae ( Triapitsyn 2002) in Coleoptera as well as Acrididae in Orthoptera (Huber 1986) . Cleruchus pieloui (Yoshimoto) was reared from the birch bracket (polypore) fungus, Piptoporus betulinus , in New Brunswick, Canada ( Yoshimoto 1971). Cleruchus polypori Triapitsyn & Moraal was reared from the fruiting bodies of the bracket fungus Fomes fomentarius on Fagus sylvatica old trees in the Netherlands; C. puchus Triapitsyn was reared from eggs of undetermined cultured Ciidae beetles associated with a Polyporus sp., and also from the bracket fungus Trametes versicolor in California, USA ( Triapitsyn & Moraal 2008).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Mymaridae

Loc

Cleruchus Enock, 1909

Manickavasagam, Sagadai, Triapitsyn, Serguei V. & Palanivel, Selvaraj 2018
2018
Loc

Cleruchoides

Lin & Huber 2007
2007
Loc

Pseudocleruchus

Donev & Huber (Lin et al. 2007
2007
Loc

Cleruchoides

Lin & Huber 2007
2007
Loc

Cleruchoides

Lin & Huber 2007
2007
Loc

Ceratanaphes

Noyes & Valentine 1989
1989
Loc

Cybomymar

Noyes & Valentine 1989
1989
Loc

Paracmotemnus

Noyes & Valentine 1989
1989
Loc

Apoxypteron

Noyes & Valentine 1989
1989
Loc

Nesomymar

Valentine 1971
1971
Loc

Prionaphes

Hincks 1961
1961
Loc

Platystethynium

Ogloblin. It 1946
1946
Loc

Cleruchus

Enock 1909
1909
Loc

Cleruchus

Enock 1909
1909
Loc

Cleruchus

Enock 1909
1909
Loc

Cleruchus

Enock 1909
1909
Loc

Cleruchus

Enock 1909
1909
Loc

Mymar

Curtis 1829
1829
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