Elongate body shape and grey-bronze with purplish to violet tints, pronotum with pair of large lateral indentations (shallow fovae) towards posterior, scutellum transverse and often reddish, pink or coppery, elytra with a somewhat irregular pattern of subdued silvery-white scale-hair patches and purplish red apices, on ventral side much of sternum and legs with light greenish colouration, aedeagus straight-sided and elongate.

This species is known in SA from two early collections: a single SA Museum specimen labelled as Adelaide, January 1903; and one in the Victorian Museum labelled as Clarendon, 25 November 1903, and probably collected by Tepper. It is possibly extinct in this State.

Two specimens listed for the WA Museum from Pygery on Eyre Peninsula, and determined by Shelley Barker in 2008, need verification, as this represents a significantly drier habitat.

In NSW, Froggatt 1895 bred 20 specimens from dead branches of Acacia longifolia and obtained adults at a second location feeding on foliage of the same Acacia species in November and December. This Wattle also occurs in SA.