Arvelius Spinola, 1837 The genus can be recognized by having the mandibular plates longer than clypeus; the apex of the mandibular plates is acute; the antennal segment I is wide and short; the antennal segment IV is the longest; the pronotum is trapezoidal, with the anterior portion inclined; the anterolateral margins of the pronotum are tuberculated; the humeral angles with acute processes laterally projected; the femora have a distal short spine; the tibiae are sulcate; the mesosternum has a prominent medial carina; and the abdomen ventrally with a medial tubercle (Brailovsky 1981).

Published as part of Castro-Huertas, Valentina, Grazia, Jocelia, Forero, Dimitri, Fernández, Fernando & Schwertner, Cristiano F., 2022, Stink bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae) of Colombia: An annotated checklist of species, pp. 1-88 in Zootaxa 5097 (1) on page 62, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5097.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6036639