Rhyssocephala Rider, 1991

The genus can be recognized by having the body black, dark brown, and metallic green or blue, with some yellow, orange, or red spots or bands; the dorsal punctuation usually is very fine, dense and forming wrinkles on the scutellum; the mandibular plates are dorsally striated; the labium reaching or surpassing the metacoxae, the metathoraxic sulcus is elongated; the abdomen base is flat, and the tarsi are three segmented (Rider 1991).