Size: 12-16mm
Basic colour: Black or dark brown with a greenish metallic reflection.
Pronotoum: Widest to the front of the middle. Sides contracted behind to the blunt but distinct hind angles.
Leg colour: Mid to pale brown.
Confusion species: Ophonus ardosiacus
, Confusion species: Ophonus sabulicola

UK Priority Species data collation for Ophonus stictus.

Size: 6-8mm
Basic colour: Mid to dark brown.
Pattern colour: Elytra usually darker than head or pronotum.
Pronotoum: 1.3-1.4 times wide as long. Sides moderately sinuate, with one long or two or three small lateral setae in anterior half. Disc finally but evenly punctured. Base straight, hind angles only slightly obtuse. Basal border usually present at least laterally but sometimes very indistinctly.
Leg colour: Pale brown.
Confusion species: Ophonus parallelus
, Confusion species: Ophonus puncticollis
, Confusion species: Ophonus rufibarbis