[2][3][4] Found throughout the Afro-Oriental tropics, including Congo, Ghana, India, Sri Lanka, China, Vietnam, Taiwan, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, Java, and Borneo.

The body is dull yellow-brown in color and covered with short, semi-erect, golden pubescence.

The anterior angles of the pronotum are produced into spines about half as long as the eyes.

In African records, they have found from the residues of bark and gum arabic, freshly fallen coconut palms in Ghana, Nigerian groundnut kernels and red beans from Mombasa.

[6] Recorded plant species include: Shorea robusta, Bombax, Sterculia campanulata, Terminalia bialata, Cocos nucifera.