The ovipositor is medium-sized, slightly crenulated, curving upwards, and one fifth of the length of the posterior femur.

[2] They are found in the understory rather than in the canopy in contrast with other members of the subfamily Phaneropterinae.

[2][3] The group was originally named in 1859 by Swiss entomologist Henri Louis Frédéric de Saussure as a subgenus of Phylloptera.

[4] It was erected as a separate genus in 1869 by British entomologist Francis Walker.

Species in this group are quite variable in their coloration and the density of the spots on the forewings, ranging from light to dark green, yellow, pink, or brown.