Mecinus

Body short oval to long cylindrical, with integument reddish-brown to black, often bicoloured, or blue with metallic reflexions, covered with more or less dense, more or less long, generally seta-like scales. Head: frons generally slightly narrower than rostrum at base. Rostrum variable in length, sometimes very short, in lateral view straight to distinctly curved, in dorsal view subconical to rectangular, usually with punctures and striae in basal two thirds. Pronotum usually transverse, at apex with more or less pronounced apical constriction. Elytra short, suboval or subelliptical, to very long, rectangular, with stria 3 joined to stria 8 at apex, with margin at apex transverse to moderately directed outward, usually only slightly wider than pronotum. Legs stout; tarsal claws fused at base, seldom free, usually similar in length, sometimes with outer claw distinctly shorter. Abdomen with ventrites 1 and 2 flat to concave and taken together longer than ventrites 3 and 4 taken together.

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