Stenolophus lineola
Stenolophus lineola
Size: 7-8.4mm
Seasonality: April-October
Distribution; North America, Bermuda
Information: nocturnal, often found on sidewalks and at lights at night.
Description: body: elongate-ovate, slender. Head triangular, face short, dorsal surface of head smooth with few inconspicuous wrinkles, head glossy dark or pale yellow. Eyes smallish, strongly bulging laterally; one long, pale supraorbital seta above each eye. Maxillary palps yellow, mandibles dark orange with black tips. Scapus, pedicel, and base of first following antennomere yellow, rest of antenna brown. Antennal pubescence begins on the first antennomere following the pedicel. Pronotum rounded-quadrate. Front margin transverse; front angles obtuse; lateral margins broadly rounded; hind angles obtuse; basal margin rounded, nearly transverse. Lateral and basal margins thinly beaded. Pronotal disk smooth, glossy pale yellow, one brown or black macule on either side of the median line. Median line shallow, disk smooth. 8 well-defined striae per elytron, elytra glossy, pale yellow with one black or dark brown elongate macule per elytron. The macule found on each elytral disk begins just before the elytral base, then usually spans until just before the apices, and is narrow. Humeral shoulders nearly squared, rounded-off. Lateral pronotal margins rounded, apices rounded. Ventral faces glossy dark or pale yellow, in some specimens, brown. Legs pale yellow.