Body length of 19-42 mm and a width of 8-16 mm. General colour variable from ferruginous to black. Elytra shiny to dull and slightly pubescent. Blackspots on
pronotum variable and can be a red stripe in the black coloured morph. Antennal scrobes deep and broad. Scape longer than furniculus and club together. Furniculus consisting of 6 segments. First abdominal sternite as long as 3rd & 4th combined.
Whitish-yellow, smooth and shiny, ca. 2.96 x 0.98 mm in size. Laid within holes bored into the trunk by females.
Southern Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and Oceania.
Larvae feed on internal tissues of the palm. Holes in the trunk and crown may be visible, often with oozingbrown gum. Green leaves begin to droop and yellowing also
occurs. The growing point at the top of the canopy becomes distorted and frass and cocoons may be vident at the base of damaged fronds.
