Size: 3.5-4mm

Seasonality: February-July, October-November.

Distribution; Europe, West Asia, NA: QC-BC-OR.

Information: n/a

Description: body: elongate-ovate, slender. Head and pronotum dark piceous to black, dorsal and ventral faces glossy. Face short, eyes small, nearly flat against head. Lower mouthparts pale brownish-orange; mandibles sickle-like, sharp, curved close to head; orange, interior margins black.  Dorsal face of head glossy, smooth. Antennae dark orange to piceous, antennal pubescence beginning on the pedicel, scapus and pedicel tend to be slightly lighter than the rest of the antennae. Pronotum somewhat quadrate, hind angles obtuse, lateral margins wide, rounded.  Dorsal face of disk smooth, median line defined, but shallow, disk along basal margin micropunctate. Pronotum dark piceous to black.  8 deep striae per elytron, humeral angles square, rounded tips, elytral apices rounded. Disk along sutural margins pale yellow, each elytron should have a triangular patch of pale yellow below each triangular black macule on the humeral shoulder. Dorsal elytral surface below the ywllow triangles and beside the yellow sutural margins black. Ventral colouration piceous to black, femora black on mature adults, tibiae yellow.