Size: 6-6.3mm

Seasonality: January-October

Distribution; BC-CA

Information: may be found near bodies of water; during hot, summer months, when lakes and tributaries are very low, they may be found active at night, and under debris during the day.

Description: body: elongate-ovate, slender. Head black, semi-glossy; smooth. Face short, when relaxed, tips of mandibles cross weakly, tips blunt, jaws broad. Palps dark brown with yellow tips. Antennae fully brown-black; scapus smooth, antennal pubescence begins on the pedicel. Eyes fairly large, bulging laterally. Pronotum semi-quadrate, lateral margins rounded; slightly upturned, thin. Hind pronotal angles obtuse, front angles acute, weakly curved towards the head. Pronotal disk glossy black, disk faces near hind angles impressed, rough. Median line faint. Basal margin of pronotum does not overlap the elytral base. Elytra fully glossy black. Subbasal ridges complete, touching or nearly touching the margins of the scutellum. Sutural and lateral margins upturned slightly; humeral angles rounded, apices rounded. 8 well-defined striae per elytron, intervals flatish.  Ventral faces glossy black, legs glossy black.