Size: 9-12.7mm 

Seasonality: March-September

Distribution; scattered throughout North America: AB, BC, NT, ON, QC, SK, CA, CO, ID, MI, MN, MT, OR, PA, SD, WA, WI, WY.

Information: n/a

Description: body: elongate-ovate, weakly convex, slender. Ventral colouration glossy to semi-glossy black; dorsal colouration: head and pronotal disk glossy black, elytra semi-glossy to fully glossy black. Head squarish; one supraorbital seta over each eye; eyes smallish, weakly bulging laterally. Two dimples should be seen on the frons, wrinkles from it continue onto the clypeus; labrum short, wavy. Mandibles strongly curved, sharp: curved close to the face. Palpi pale yellow to orange, antennae similarly coloured; antennae relatively short, antennal pubescence begins on the first antennomere following the pedicel. Pronotum squarish; anterior margin concave; anterior angles weakly jutting forward, obtuse; lateral margins weakly rounded; hind angles obtuse; basal margin straight. Lateral and basal margins thinly beaded. Median line faint, with thin horizontal wrinkles; dorsal hind angles heavily micropunctate, otherwise glossy. Scutellum weakly exposed. Laterobasal ridges entire, shoulder tooth weak. Humeral shoulders obtuse; lateral margins weakly rounded; apices pointed, very weakly sinuate. 8 thin striae per elytron, intervals flattish; one preapical fovea on each of the 2nd stria. Legs bicoloured: tibiae pale, femora and tarsi dark.