Orbatina Ruckes, 1961

The genus can be recognized by having the humeral angles subacute, produced laterad of the hemelytra by a distance subequal to one-half of the width of an eye, the labium is inserted before of the imaginary plane bisecting the head at anterior margin of the eyes and reaching the abdominal sternite V, the labial segment II reaching the mesocoxae, the antennae is five segmented, the antennal segment I surpassing the apex of the head, the clypeus and mandibular plates subequal in length, and the elevated margin of each evaporative area is sigmoid (Rolston 1992).