Size: 5.5-7.0mm
Basic colour: Orange to yellow with black spots (sometimes dorsally all black)
Pattern colour: Orange to yellow with black spots (sometimes dorsally all black)
Number of spots: Two (sometimes fused into one broad spot) on the pronotum, five on each elytron (but sometimes fused, missing, partially missing or dorsally all black)
Spot fusions: Sometimes
Other colour forms: Sometimes
Pronotoum: See above
Leg colour: Black or dark brown (yellowish claws)
Confusion species: Gonioctena decemnotata