diagnostics (by 'gregorykuwahara'): "... additional marginal bristles on the scutellum besides the usual four, plus the reclinate anterior-most dorsocentrals, are telling of this genus........and a relatively flat lunule (the bit of the face between the antennae). Rachispoda also have extra scutellar bristles, but have large, incurving anterior dorsocentrals and a bulging lunule."