[3] Its body is covered in silky golden hairs and fine scales.

Niptus hololeucus may be a pest of a wide variety of cereal based food products.

[3] In 1981 an account of an infestation of these beetles was located in a roof void above offices in Rotherham, U.K.[4] This was found to be due to wild pigeons which were nesting within the loft: the beetles and their larvae were feeding upon their waste matter.

It is a temperate species originating in West Asia but now cosmopolitan.

[6] N. hololeucus is one of the two species of Niptus to be found in caves.