Identification
Medium sized, black with a faintly bluish or violaceous fore body and bright coppery to black elytra; elytral margins with bluish, greenish, violaceous or golden lustre; prothorax with prolongation of lateral basal foveae to before middle of the disc; elytral sculpture rougher than in S. angusticollis, with 14-16 deep punctured irregular striae. Males have protarsi with four moderately dilated segments.
Range
Western North America from northern California to Aleutian Islands and Alaskan peninsula; east to western Montana, Wyoming and central Alberta.
Natural History
This species is widespread (eurytopic) and found in most habitats from sea level to above timberline in open country, supratidal meadows, deciduous and coniferous forest, and synanthropic sites.
