[1] The few known specimens of the genus are medium-sized and completely wingless, hardly spined species.

In contrast to these, the females of Heterocopus do not have a curved, but a straight and relatively long secondary ovipositor.

From the mesonotum over the metanotum to the end of the abdomen there is a distinct ridge running down the middle of the body.

At the same time he transferred the 1859 by John Obadiah Westwood as Acanthoderus ranarius described species in this genus.

For each of these, a male and female syntype are deposited in the State Museum of Zoology, Dresden.