Subgenus Genistocapsus Wagner, 1956

Type species: Platycranus metriorrhynchus Reuter, 1883 (by original designation)

Genistocapsus Wagner, 1956: 421, 424 [n. subgen.]; Schuh, 1995: 182 [cat.]; Wagner, 1974: 149 [key to spp .]

Diagnosis. Distinguished by the following combination of characters: labium relatively long, reaching or surpassing middle coxa; head vertical, extended ventrally; eyes in male relatively small, vertex male 1.5–2.7 ×, female 2.2–3.5 × as wide as eye.