Size: 4.5-5.5mm
Basic colour: Shiny black with a strong metallic green reflection.
Pattern colour: Elytra almost uniformly reddish brown with just a suggestion of a paler sub-apical mark, and a darker area around the scutellum and along the suture.
Pronotoum: Narrow compared to elytra, side borders very narrow, not reaching front angles, hind angles hardly protruding, base not punctured.
Leg colour: Brown.
Confusion species: Bembidion decorum
, Confusion species: Bembidion fluviatile