Appearance
Head small and broad. Antennae about the length of the thorax, and small. Thorax broad and rugged, having the elevated parts of a dark coppery colour; but the depressed ones lighter, covered with very small punctures, and joining close to the wing-cases. Scutellum very small and triangular. Elytra of the same colour with the thorax; the dark parts in the figure being those that lie highest. They are margined on the sides and suture, extending even with the anus; which near their edges are slightly serrated. Under side shining and coppery, but on the sides with a tincture of flesh colour. Legs the same; with two tibial spurs. Length, a little more than an inch.A fuller description is given by Maier & Ivie.
Recorded hosts are the Red Pine and White Pine . In addition to its native home in North America, specimens have been taken in Europe and Japan, presumably as a result of accidental introduction in transported timber.
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