Size: 4.3-4.8mm

Seasonality: most active March-September

Distribution; BC, WA, OR, native to Europe

Information: may be found in forested areas, grassy fields, along coastal cliffs, and on coastal sand dunes. Nocturnal; may be attracted to lights, UV and mercury vapour traps.

Description: body: elongate-oblong, moderately robust. Head triangular, face short, dorsal surface of head smooth, with two slender dimples on the frons, which briefly continue onto the clypeus. Head glossy dark red-orange. Eyes large, bulging laterally; two short supraorbital setae over each eye. Maxillary palps yellow. Scapus and pedicel yellow to orange, rest of antennae should be pale to dark orange. Antennal pubescence begins on the second half of the second antennomere following the pedicel. Antennal segments following the first after the pedicel should be cylindrical. Pronotum rounded, slightly narrower than the humeral shoulder width; front angles obtuse; lateral margins rounded; hind angles strongly obtuse; basal margin rounded. Margins thinly beaded. Median line deep; aside from minor depressions on the interior dorsal face of the hind angles, the pronotal disk should be smooth, glossy dark red-orange. 8 deep striae per elytron, dark, glossy red-otange, intervals flat. Humeral shoulders wider than pronotum, squarish-rounded; lateral margins nearly parallel; apices rounded. Ventral faces dark, glossy red-orange, legs orange. Very fine, faint pubescence on the abdominal tergites.