[2] The beetles are between 3 and 4 mm in length, with elongated bodies that are comparatively weakly curved.

They have yellow, orange, to reddish to pink-colored elytra that display 19 black spots.

On the beige to yellow scutum are also six black patches that can be connected to each other through ridges.

The habitat in Central Europe is wetlands- fen grassy marshes, forested swamps, and peat bogs and mires.

[4] The species is common in the West Palearctic-Europe, and is found in the north up to southern Norway, central Sweden and Finland and into European Russia (middle zone and the south).