Genus Charops Holmgren, 1859

Type species: Campoplex deficiens Gravenhorst, 1829; by original designation.

Diagnosis. Head strongly lenticular; mandible with lamella, teeth equal or subequal; eye strongly emarginated opposite antennal socket; temple short; notauli absent; central 0.3 or more of mesopleural furrow not impressed, indicated by weakly raised mesepimeron; scutellum slightly concave to convex; propodeum rugose to reticulate, spiracle elongate; apex of propodeum close to apex of hind coxa; areolet absent; fore wing 2m-cu vein vertical; nervellus intercepted below middle; tarsal claws pectinate; metasoma long and strongly compressed; postpetiole swollen and bulbous; male parameres rod-like or not; ovipositor short, straight or upcurved, not projecting beyond apex of metasoma and with a distinct notch subapically.