Blackish grey to bronze with areas of strong purple coloration, dorsi-ventrally compressed. Relatively short pronotum, barely tapered laterally in its posterior half except for a slight constriction close to the base, flattened basally. Mealiness retained on declivities, lightly whitish above, densely white below. A distinctive lobed ovipositor. Aedeagus dilating distally before a terminal constriction with parameres strongly curved and bulging laterally.

The application of this name to SA specimens is somewhat uncertain. Similar specimens in the SA Museum have also been identified as A. blackburni, described by Obenberger 1928. If they are conspecific, A. anthaxoides has priority, being the earlier name.

This is one of four Anilara species commonly found on the dead or dying foliage of fallen eucalypt branches in the Adelaide area (see also A. obscura, A. longicollis and A. angusta).

Adults are found on dead foliage of fallen branches of Eucalyptus species in summer and breed in the dead stems. I reared a single individual from Grey Box Eucalyptus microcarpa billets cut from a fallen dead branch in Adelaide.