A large, species readily distinguished from the unrelated Temognatha heros by its much more convex shape and the more regular evenly-spaced dimple-like puncta arranged in longitudinal lines down the elytra. Mostly yellow to orange-brown, darker on pronotum, with metallic blue-green on legs and on ventral side (and often with some weak purplish-pink reflections there also).

This distinctive genus is named for its superficial resemblance to the African Buprestid genus Julodis. The adults are short-lived and often appear in large numbers in mallee areas of SA from late November to mid-December.

Bellamy & Weir 2008 reinstated Julodimorpha saundersii, dividing the genus into a western and eastern species, although the geographical boundary between them was not precisely established. The western species, J. saundersii, at least, is famous for the habit of males congregating on and attempting to mate with discarded stubbie beer bottles which have a similar colouring and stippled texture to the beetles (Gwynne & Rentz 1983).

The original description of J. bakewellii (as Stigmodera) by White 1859 gives the source material as being from Australia, in 'Eucalyptus dumosa' woodland commonly called 'Mallee scrub'.

Many SA Museum specimens of this species have not yet had their label data captured.

Adults have been collected from a range of different plants, but have not been recorded as feeding on nectar or foliage, and their occurrence on recorded hosts is probably opportunistic. Williams, Mitchell & Sundholm 2024 note that females of the genus are flightless, and sought out by males that fly close to the ground, with copulation occurring on the ground. Tepper 1887 captured adults twice on flowering shrubs of 'Acacia calamifolia' in the Murray scrub (probably A. euthycarpa Wallowa).

Larvae are thought to be free-living in the soil and to feed on roots. Hawkeswood & Peterson 1982 cite a WA collection of a Julodimorpha ovipositing 2.5 cm below the ground near the base of a Calothamnus shrub. Bílý, Volkovitsh & Peterson 2013 describe from WA a large (85 x 19.5 mm) larva of the closely related Julodimorpha saundersii from a frass-lined chamber in sand 40 cm below the surface and associated with a plant root that had been chewed where it adjoined the chamber.