It is rather high, V-like compressed, caudally extended, with a small tubercle on the posterior part.

The legs are lightly annulated with dark brown and show short spines arising from black spots.

The palpal bulbs of the males, located at the end of the pedipalps, are round to longish oval.

This species is present in the Palearctic realm, in Europe (Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Republic of Moldova, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Ukraine and Yugoslavia), Turkey, Caucasus, Kazakhstan, European Russia up to Far East, China, Korea and Japan.

[7] These spiders occur in many different habitats, in warm areas, in bogs and swamps, in grasslands, open forests, bushes and hedges.