ABSTRACT
The subfamily Attelabinae is characterized by the following: Adult with body more or less short, stout, glabrous or with appressed pubescence above, color variable; head rectangular to weakly triangular, elongate in males of some; eyes large, mostly reniform, longest diameter more or less vertical; rostrum short to moderate in length, distinctly widened apically, weakly arcuate in lateral view; lateral apical angle in some with tooth-like projection;
postmentum in some males with pair of acuminate ventral projections; antennae inserted dorsolaterally, club 3-segmented, more or less compact, scrobe short, distinct, more or less vertical; mandibles robust, toothed on inner apical margin, outer margin more or less rounded; maxillary palps 4-segmented; labial palps indistinctly 1 or 2 segmented, located ventrally on prementum; elytra more or less quadrate, not much longer than wide, humeri simple to strongly protuberant, scutellary striole present or absent, striae becoming less distinct posteriorly in many; ventral abdominal sutures 1-3 more or less rigid; procoxae prominent, conical; prothoracic legs enlarged, profemora distinctly swollen, armed or unarmed; protibia longer, narrower and more arcuate in males; tibial apices uni-uncinate in males and bi-uncinate in females; tarsal claws connate.
