SIZE: 9-12 mm. COLOUR: Yellowish brown, orange brown or reddish brown, with several pale and dark dorsal markings.

ROSTRUM (beak): First segment thick, directed away from head, exposed, at most with its base lying between bucculae (ridges underneath head)

HUMERI (pronotum hind corners) triangular-rounded, blunt. SIDES OF ABDOMEN with hind corner of segments square or rounded, blunt.

THORAX UNDERSIDE with ear-shaped scent gland opening between mid and hind legs. ABDOMEN UNDERSIDE with weak spine, extended forward only as far as base of hind legs.

BODY LENGTH: About 9 mm. COLOUR: Mostly black; thorax, wing pads with whitish outline; abdomen pale with black dots/marks, 2 large transverse black plates between a thin, broad plate and a small narrow plate near midline; legs dark with broad pale middle band; segments 1 and 4 of antennae black, segments 2-3 partly brownish yellow. WING PADS rounded at tip.