Agroecus Dallas, 1851

The genus can be recognized by having the abdominal sternite III without a process (mesial tubercle or spine), the peritreme is short and auriculate, the femora have two parallel rows of short tubercles, the corium has several longitudinal, impunctate bands, the anterolateral margin of the pronotum is denticulate, and the basal plates are conspicuously convex in lateral view (Rider & Rolston 1987).