[2] Varietas include:[3] This species is present in Europe, European Russia, the Caucasus, Belarus, Ukraine, Transcaucasia, Asia Minor, North America, Newfoundland, Virginia and South Carolina.

[7] These tiny beetles have an elongate oval body, with strongly convex elytra, smooth, shiny and densely, finely punctured.

The larch ladybirds are beetles with a great variability in color and markings, with several varietas.

For example Aphidecta obliterata v. fenestrata has entirely black elytra, while usually they range from tan to brown, often with a pink tinge.

The pronotum is beige, with four dark brown lines forming a M mark.