They are found in Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, and parts of Brazil.

They have brightly colored hind wings and forewings with distinctive markings.

[1] Their source of nourishment is tree sap, which they ingest using a tube-like organ in place of a mouth.

They all have the distinct band at 2/3rds of the tegmen pale yellow or peach, uninterrupted, uniformly thick, undulate, and distinctly bifurcating near the sutral margin.The three species can be differentiated with the following key: 1.

The cephalic process apically trifurcating ... Phrictus tripartitus -.