Body length: 10 - 22 mm Life cycle: 1 year Adults in: April - July Host plant: polyphagous in herbaceous plants (Carduus, Onopordon, Cirsium, Heracleum, Daucus, Ferula etc.) Distribution: Europe except North, Russia, Caucasus, Kazakhstan The depicted beetle was collected on the host plant (Cirsium) in Štúrovo (South Slovakia). Collected by M.Hoskovec.