Basidissus Fairmaire, 1897

Type species: Basidissus cristatus Fairmaire, 1897: 192, by original designation.

Recognition. Head relatively short (Figs. 1, 7, 15), rostrum flat, without longitudinal carina, with only weak transversal impression in the middle, sides of rostrum parallel. Eyes large, convex (Fig. 15). Scrobes not visible dorsally, scape slightly hidden in scrobe in dorsal view. Antennae reaching to posterior margin of pronotum in both sexes. Funicle thin, club robust. Pronotum transverse with one, two or three tufts of setae, transverse carina antebasal, not reaching the middle of prothorax. Elytra broadly oval with sub-basal, median and preapical tufts of erect setae or tubercles.