A distinctive dark plant bug which is covered in pale hairs, although the sexes are markedly dimorphic. Females are brachypterous and much more rounded in shape; the more elongate and parallel-sided males are macropterous. The 2nd antennal segment has a dark ring at the base in females but is wholly dark in males. Females have a dark red head.

Favours nettles in dampish woodland.

Adult June to September.

Fairly frequent throughout England and Wales.

Status in Leicestershire and Rutland not known.