Size: 9.8-14.7mm

Seasonality: March-October

Distribution; North America excluding se.USA, s. Mexico, n.Alaska and northern Canada

Information: typically in areas with much leaf litter, fields, meadows, forests.

Description: body: elongate-ovate; dorsal body colouration varies highly within most populations, examples included at bottom of the page. Ventral faces semi-glossy black. Head triangular, face longish; head smooth, with scattered micropunctures, eyes weakly bulge laterally. Two setae should be found above each eye. A small ridge begins over the eye, then ends abruptly over the base of the scapus. Mandibles curved, dark black-green or black-blue in colour; palpi brown with pale tips. Scapus, pedicel, and first following antennomere pale or dark orange, the rest are dark, with the antennal pubescence beginning on the second antennomere following the pedicel. Pronotum slopes towards the head dorsally and laterally. Disk mostly smooth, median line shallow, but prominent, wrinkles thin, pronotal base heavily micropunctate. Hind angles squared or weakly obtuse, lateral margins rounded-sloping slowly towards the head, front angles acute, weakly curved towards the head. Scutellum barely exposed; pronotal base almost as wide as the elytral base. 7-8 well-defined striae per elytron, no apical pubescence; elytral interval 3 should have two-three small pores touching the 3rd stria or residing near the centre of the interval. Intervals flat, apices pointed.