Female: Body spiral to C-shaped, medium
sized.
Lip region slightly offset or continuous with body, with or without
annules
and/or longitudinal striae.
Labial framework and stylet medium sized; stylet knobs flattened to
indented anteriorly.
Dorsal
esophageal gland opening 3 to 10 µm from stylet
base.
Esophageal
glands with three nuclei, overlap intestine dorsally and
laterally; intestine symmetrically arranged between the subventral
glands.
Two genital branches outstretched, equally developed.
Lateral field
with four or fewer incisures.
Tail short, rounded.
Phasmids enlarged
to scutella erratically situated on body in lateral field, not
opposite each other, anterior to anus level; sometimes one
scutellum
is anterior to vulva
level.
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