A small beetle with a pronotum with dark central stripe and brownish-orange sides. The tip of the elytra is also brownish-orange.   Antennae reddish in males and almost black in females; males can have dark brown tibiae, but females are nearly always black.  The tarsi are black.

A pulicarius is similar, but rare (not present in VC55) and with records from the southern half on Britain

Good photo from field or specimen

New to VC55 in 2014; since then there have been several records and it is becoming more widespread.