Size: 12.8-16.4mm

Seasonality: April-November

Distribution; Canada, the USA, Mexico

Information:  may be found just about anywhere, but tends to prefer dry areas and sandy soils. Nocturnal, omnivorous; will consume grass seeds if invertebrate prey is unavailable.

Description: body: elongate-ovate, slender. Dorsal colouration of mature adults should be matte or semi-glossy black, nearing grey; the head should be glossy reddish-black. Head covered in minute wrinkles, otherwise smooth, face short, mandibles short, roughly straight with weakly hooked tip. Palps orange to piceous, antennae the same. Antennal pubescence begins on the second half of the first antennomere after the pedicel. Pronotum semi-quadrate, lateral margins rounded; hind angles weakly obtuse, rounded; front angles acute, weakly curved towards head. Margins or pronotum and elytra slightly upturned, thin. Lateral and frontal margins of the pronotum reddish; dorsal margins of the disk near basal margin heavily micropunctate. Median line shallow, minute wrinkles fan out towards the lateral margins from the median line. Basal margin of pronotum overlaps the elytral base, covering most of the scutellum. 7-8  deep striae per elytron, intervals weakly elevated, no elytral pubescence present. Apical margins weakly pointed, lateral margins elongate-rounded. Ventral faces reddish-piceous, nearly black; legs dark reddish-orange.