Elanela Rolston, 1980

The genus can be recognized by having the body castaneous with brown punctuations; the lateral margins of the mandibular plates outlined in black; the distal half of the antennal segments IV and V are black; the scutellum has small yellow calluses on the basal angle and on the basal margin medially; the disc of scutellum is black, reddish, or ivory, and calloused; the head is wider than long, strongly sloping ventrally; the apex of the mandibular plates not surpassing the clypeus; the margins of the mandibular plates are strongly concave before the eyes; the posterior margin of the buccula is rounded; the first labial segment surpassing the bucculae; the pronotum is trapezoidal; the anterolateral margins of the pronotum are straight; the humeral angles are rounded; the mesosternum is carinate; the metasternum is produced, the peritreme is spout-shaped; the evaporatorium is covering the most of the mesopleura and metepisternum; and the posterolateral angle of the connexivum is acute (Grazia et al. 2016).