Agonum punctiforme
Agonum punctiforme
Size: 7.5-9.5mm
Seasonality: February-October (In PNW)
Distribution; Across North America
Information: May be found at night around porch and street lights, visit UV lights frequently, and may be found resting on walls and plants during the day.
Description: body: elongate-ovate, slender. Dorsal colouration should be fully glossy black or very dark piceous; ventral colouration similar. Head triangular, surface of head smooth, eyes large, bulging laterally with two long setae over each eye. The clypeus should have one pit inside of both lateral margins containing a single seta. Mandibles black or piceous, curved close to the face. Face short. Scapus, pedicel, and first two to three segments following should be orange, after which the antennae are much darker in colour. Antennal pubescence begins just before the second half of the second antennomere following the pedicel. Pronotum ovate; lateral beading entire; median line faint; pronotal disk entirely smooth aside from the two indentations found on the pronotal base-one small indent may be found on either side of the equally faint lower median bulge. Front margin curved inward; front angles acute; lateral and basal margins round; hind angles rounded-obtuse; scutellum exposed. Elytra elongate-ovate; basal/humeral shoulder rounded with slight sinuate margin beside the scutellum; elongate-rounded; apices pointed. 7-8 deep, well-defined striae per elytron, intervals weakly elevated. Elytral interval 3 should have 3-4 fovea within it, spaced out across the entirety of the 3rd interval; no additional pubescence.