496 specimens from Costa Rica: Alajuela, Cartago, Heredia and Puntarenas; El Salvador: Ahuachapán, La Libertad and San Salvador; Guatemala: El Quiché, El Progreso, Frontera, Jutiapa, Chimaltenango, Baja Verapaz, Santa Rosa and Zacapa; Honduras: El Paraíso, Tegucigalpa, Atlántida, Colón, Cortés, Comayagua, Francisco Morazán, La Paz, Olancho and Yoro; Panamá: Oeste, Coclé, Chiquirí and Darien (CEAM, CNIN, FSCA, USNMNH, OUNMH, MNCR, MUCR, MZCR).

Length 3.2–5.4 mm. Width 2.4–4 mm. Dorsally black with three to four orange, yellow or red spots on each elytron, spots sometimes fused. Males with pale-yellow head and pronotal anterior border. Third ventrite bicuspid in males, cusps short, wide and with divergent apex. Male genitalia asymmetrical, penis guide with apical hook.

From the South of the USA to Brazil and Peru, including Jamaica, Cuba, Puerto Rico and Dominican Republic.

This species is very similar to others in the group, but the shape of the male ventral cusps is different in being wider than long, apically divergent and not strongly pronounced, and is usually enough to differentiate it.