Perissobasis Reuter

Type species: Perissobasis aurora Reuter, 1892 . Monotypic.

Perissobasis Reuter 1892 A: 397 (new genus); Carvalho 1957 A: 119 (catalog); Schuh 2002 –2013 (online catalog)); Carvalho 1982E: 335 (diagnosis, key to species); Ferreira & Coelho 2009: 57 (diagnosis, key to species, figures of dorsal habitus and male genitalia of known species). Platybasicornis Maldonado 1971A: 142 (new genus, key to related genera; synonymized by Carvalho, 1976 B:52).

Diagnosis. Body shiny and round. Head wider than long, weakly convex dorsally, shining, broad at the base, and weakly acuminate between antennal sockets to the apex. Antennae with a highly tumid first antennal segment, a sinuous second antennal segment, and other segments cylindrical. Pronotum shiny and punctate with long, semi-erect, thick pubescence; the lateral borders of pronotum rounded; scutellum smooth, shiny, and somewhat convex.