[3][2][4][5] external map Species reported from North America east of the Mississippi River and into Southeastern Canada.

The notum is opaque black, with three grayish olive transverse bands.

The first segment black; second segment with large yellow lateral triangles (smaller in the female), and narrow posterior yellow ring, against a black background that extending narrowly to the lateral margins; third segment with large spots on the sides in front connected by a yellow ring against a black background a yellow ring borders the rear of the segment.

Noteworthy veination - Spurious vein (sv), looping of R4+5 into r4+5, closed cell r2+3.anterior cross- vein (r-m) near the middle of discal cell (dm), oblique.

The legs are variably coloured usually black with the tip of femora and base of tibiae yellow.