Baridinae are typically small to mid-sized short-legged weevils, with a characteristic round or ball-like shape.

[2] Usually colored black all over at least on the upperside, they are neither highly glossy or metallic, nor dull, but moderately shiny, like polished leather.

The pronotum is not highly arched and may be outright flattened; it has rounded corners and it is about as wide as the elytrae.

Some Baridinae are found on Helianthus (typical sunflowers) of the Asteraceae, which are asterid eudicots quite unrelated to the cabbage family.

And Orchidophilus is particular to Epidendroideae orchids – especially Dendrobium and Phalaenopsis –, which are monocots and thus even more distant relatives of the usual Baridinae foodplants.