Padaeus Stål, 1862 [Fig. 70]

The genus can be recognized by having body oval and convex ventrally, black or dark brown coloration, the head is triangular, the clypeus is rounded and slightly surpassing the mandibular plates, the posterior region of the frenum is less or equal width to the half to the basal region width of the scutellum; and the anterolateral margins of the pronotum rounded, with its surface striated or with sparse denticles (Brailovsky 1987; Torres 2004).