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).

Published as part of 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, pp. 1-88 in Zootaxa 5097 (1) on page 28, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5097.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6036639