Size: 6.3-7.7mm

Seasonality: Varies from region, but tend to be less active during winter months

Distribution; Western Canada, WA, OR, CA

Information: May occur among moist leaf litter or soil debris, in floodplains, grassy fields, marshes, usually near water.   Are known to prey upon springtails, mites, and small insect larvae.

Description: Body colouration; abdomen dark brown, legs yellow-orange, head black with green-gold sheen, antennae dark brown with patches of lighter brown(in some individuals, half of the antennomeres are brown, while the other half-those nearest the head, may be of a lighter orange or yellow colouration), elytra opaque yellow-brown, pronotum black-bronze or bronze-green, mouthparts including palps amber-coloured. Antennae setose, presumably to assist the carabid while hunting springtails, head rather compact, mouthparts short, do not protrude far from the head, ventral and dorsal faces of the head heavily foveate, each pit holding long setae.   Width of head, when measured from left eye to right eye, should be equal to that of the pronotal apex.  Labrum protrudes past mandibles.  Running along the basal margin of the pronotum, two-three uneven rows of small pits should be present, pronotum cordate, abdominal region oblong, loosely ovate.     Elytral Striation: The 2nd, 4th, and 7th elytral intervals each with 3 depressions (foveae), each stria lined with minute pits.

Males and females within the genus Loricera can be told apart by the width of the protarsi.