271 specimens from Belize: Orange Walk; Costa Rica: Alajuela, Cartago, Heredia, Guanacaste, Limón, San José and Puntarenas; Guatemala: Chimaltenango, El Quiche, Guatemala City, Huehuetenango, Suchitepequez and Totonicapan; Honduras: Atlantida; Panamá: Chiriqui (CEAM, CNIN, FSCA, USNMNH, OUMNH, MNCR, MUCR, MZCR).

Length 2.3–3.7 mm, width 1.8–2.8 mm. Oval body. Dorsally pale yellow to pinkish orange except pronotum with a multilobed basal macula; each elytron with 4 black spots, one spot in a sub-humeral position, another in the second half of the elytron, a discal spot on the elytral suture, and a subapical spot on the elytral suture (Figs 1, 2). Ventral color dark brown to light brown. Males with the ventrites V and VI slightly emarginated, not depressed. Male genitalia asymmetrical. Protibia flanged.

From southern USA to Panamá.

The small size and coloration are usually enough to distinguish this species from other species of the genus. Some specimens from Guatemala display the darker dorsal coloration that was previously described by Leng (1911) as the species B. duodecimguttata. The holotype of B. duodecimguttata is a female; the genitalia of male specimens with morphology similar to that described by Leng (1911) were dissected and no differences were found from that of B. lepida. Therefore, B. duodecimguttata should be considered a junior synonym of B. lepida.