[1] Broad-headed bugs are known as knobe in the Meto and Funai Helong languages of West Timor, Indonesia.

The most notable characteristics of the family are that the head is broad, often similar in length and width to the pronotum and the scutellum, and that the last antennal segments are elongated and curved.

[3] These bugs mainly inhabit fairly arid and sandy habitat, like seashores, heathland, steppe and savannas.

Their main food is seeds, which they pierce with their proboscis to drink the nutritious fluids contained within.

Two major lineages are generally accepted as subfamilies; a third (the Leptocorisinae[4]) is now placed as a tribe Leptocorisini of the Micrelytrinae.