Diagnostic characters of adult female Parlatoriini are: a few genera pupillarial; body usually oval to circular, a bit more elongate in pupillarial species; pygidium with marginal lobes and well-developed, glanduliferous plates present, often fimbriate (gland spines absent); median lobes never fused into a single lobe; all lobes uni-lobulate; macroducts two-barred, short and broad with sclerotized orifices parallel to margin, not in any clear segmental arrangement, those on the pygidial margin larger than the others; preygidium often with plates, and with or without duct tubercles; abdominal disc pores, if present, perivulvar in distribution, absent from prepygidial segments; stigmatic disc pores present by anterior spiracles only; antennae usually each with only one seta; intersegmental folds absent, crenulae sometimes present.