Size: 5-7.4mm

Seasonality: February-December; seasonality varies slightly per location.

Distribution; USA, mostly east of Montana, but scattered from CA-OR-ID, AZ, UT, CO, NM, Mexico, the West Indies, eastern CAN

Information: nocturnal, abundant at UV and mercury vapour traps at night, as well as porch lights.

Description: body: elongate-oblong, slender. Dorsal colouration glossy dark to relatively pale brown; ventral colouration similar. Head squarish, face short; heavy smooth, microsculpture evident across the entire head, including the labrum. Two shallow, triangular dimples on the frons, which do not continue onto the clypeus; clypeus short. Mandibles short, slender, very close to the face; largely obscured by the labrum. Lower mouthparts yellow; antennae dark after the pedicel; pedicel and scapus pale; antennal pubescence begins on the first antennomere following the pedicel (segment 3). Eyes strongly bulging laterally. Pronotum squarish, rounded. Anterior(front) margin transverse; front angles obtuse; lateral margins rounded, sloping towards the base; hind angles rounded-obtuse; basal margin transverse. Lateral margins opaque yellow-brown, thinly beaded. Median line very weak, nearly absent; dorsal face of disk along the base micropunctate; disk weakly explanate(flattened, similar to dimples) on either side of the lower median bulge; disk otherwise smooth, flattish. Pronotum almost as broad as the elytral shoulders. 8 deep, well-defined striae per elytron, intervals flattish or weakly elevated, with slight iridescence. Humeral shoulders squarish, rounded; lateral margins parallel; apices round. Legs pale to dark yellow.