"8-13mm. Short and broad body, slightly shiny, yellowish, the middle of the head, pronotum, metasternum and partially black brown legs with greenish or tanned metallic reflections, suture and disc sometimes padded. Brown antennae. Pubescence thick, short, yellowish above;

Species spread over all intertropical Africa, voluntarily introduced in New Caledonia at the station of Port-Laguerre in 1978, from where it radiated.

R.PAULIAN, op.cit.