Belongs within: Cremastinae.
Temelucha is a cosmopolitan genus of ichneumon wasps characterised by a first metasomal tergite with the ventral margins bowed medially to enclose the corresponding sternite (Gauld 1984).
Characters (Gauld 1984): Small to medium-sized, fore wing length 3–9 mm; body slender; occipital carina mediodorsally interrupted, free ends often down-turned. Hind femur simple, without a ventral tooth. Fore wing with 3r-m absent. First tergite moderately to very slender, its ventral edges bowed medially to meet or almost meet in midline, thus enclosing the sternite partially; tergite 2 slender, without thyridia. Apex of male paramere rounded to subtruncate; ovipositor projecting beyond apex of gaster by 1.9–4.0 times length of hind tibia, its apex usually decurved.
Temelucha Foerster 1869 (see below for synonymy)G84
|--‘Porizon’ facilis [incl. P. macer, *Temelucha macer]G84
|--‘*Neocremastus’ asiaticus Meyer 1930G84
|--T. australiensis [incl. T. verimaculata]G84
|--‘*Tarytia’ basimacula Cameron 1907G84
|--‘Ophionellus’ biguttulus [incl. *Cremastidea chinensis Viereck 1912]G84
|--T. cycneaG84
|--‘*Androna’ fuscicornis Cameron 1911G84
|--‘*Paracremastus’ genalis Szépligeti 1900G84
|--T. minuta [incl. T. clausa]G84
`--T. nivalisG84
Temelucha Foerster 1869 [incl. Androna Cameron 1911, Cremastidea Viereck 1912, Neocremastus Meyer 1930 non Cushman 1917, Paracremastus Szépligeti 1900, Tarytia Cameron 1907]G84
*Type species of generic name indicated
References
[G84] Gauld, I. D. 1984. An Introduction to the Ichneumonidae of Australia. British Museum (Natural History).