Size: ~16mm~

Seasonality: n/a

Distribution; OR, WA, Cascade Mountain Range

Information: CURRENTLY, our only specimen of Nebria vandykei is of one specimen which was severely damaged by a minor mite infestation while the specimen was still being held in California, for which reason, the given description may not cover the species to our average extent.

Description: body: elongate-ovate, slender. Dorsal colouration semi-glossy black. Head large, triangular, face long, eyes considerably reduced in size. Head smooth. Mandibles similar to those seen on Promecognathus sp., rather long, slender, the tips of the mandibles bent into points at almost a 90 degree angle. Palps black. Base of the head nearly as wide as the pronotal disk. Antennae black. Pronotum strongly cordate, basal margin sinuous; hind angles sharply acute, pointed towards the elytra, lateral margins strongly sinuous, thin, upturned, front angles rounded-acute, frontal margin appears as an indent curving in, away from the base of the head. Dorsal surfaces of the pronotum along the margins heavily punctate and wrinkled, median line weak, dorsal faces of the pronotal disk on either side of the median line, within the marginal punctures and wrinkles, weakly elevated, smooth. Elytra with about 9 or 10 deep striae per elytron, intervals elevated, creating strong costae between the striae. Strial costae repeatedly interrupted around the elytral apices and along the half of the elytron closest to the lateral margins, creating elevated, semi-ovate granule-like sculpturing. Elytra black, semi-glossy. Humeral shoulders obtuse, lateral margins rounded, stretched, lateral margins wide, apices semi-acute, rounded. Ventral faces and legs glossy black, legs long.