This species resembles other smaller or medium-sized species of
Neptosternus. It may be recognized by the size, fairly widely oval shape of its body, the colour-patterns of
pronotum and
elytra, and the shape of the penis in the males. Its length is between , while its breadth is between . It shape is elongate and oval, moderately convex dorsally; and its upper surface shining. Its head and
antennae are yellowish in colour, with fine and remote punctation on the head. It also has a reticulate surface. The pronotum is yellowish with a narrow transverse slightly darker band in the middle, and an anterior submarginal row of punctures that are irregular. ==References==