Size: 7.3-10mm

Seasonality: January-September

Distribution; H.fuscipalpus is a holarctic species, and occurs across Eurasia, and in North America from AK-CA-s.TX, and in a few parts of the eastern USA.

Information: may be found in coniferous or mixed-forest habitat.

Description: body: elongate-ovate, slender, convex. Dorsal colouration glossy to semi-glossy matte black, ventral colouration and legs glossy black, some individuals may have a weak reddish hue. Head weakly triangular, squarish; surface of the head smooth, eyes reduced, not bulging strongly; one supraorbital seta over each eye; the frons should have two very faint dimples, which do not continue onto the clypeus; centre of clypeus smooth, with shallow wrinkles along tha lateral margins. Labrum squarish, margins opaque, with a fine mesh of stretched microsculpturing. Surface of the head and clypeus should have very fine, roundish microscuplture.  Mandibles thick, very strongly curved; curved close to the face; lower mouth parts orange to piceous. Scapus orange, rest of antennae dark. Pronotum squarish, convex; anterior and basal margins parallel; anterior angles weakly obtuse; lateral margins weakly rounded, with thin beading laterally and on the basal margin; hind angles rounded, squarish. Pronotum as broad as the elytral shoulders. Disk mostly smooth, median line very faint; centre of the disk smooth; lower median bulge very weak, with faint, rough impressions on either side of it. Parascutellar pits small, scutellum exposed. 8 thin striae per elytron, evenly spaced; intervals flat, either matte or semi-glossy black. Humeral shoulders obtuse; lateral margins rounded, broader preapically; apices weakly sinuate, rounded.