Net-winged beetles are cosmopolitan, found in Nearctic, Palearctic, Neotropical, Afrotropical, Oriental, and Australian ecoregions. Beetles of this family are elongated and usually found on flowers or stems. Adult males are about 10–15 mm in length, while females are larger. The head is triangular, and the antennae are long, thick, and serrated. Most of them are brick-red in colour, as a warning to predators of their toxicity. Their larvae grow under bark or in leaf litter and are predaceous.