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).