Photo © M.Hoskovec

A broadly distributed species (from Europe to Transcaucasia and North Iran). It develops in deciduous trees, especially in oak (Quercus), also in hornbeam (Carpinus), beech (Fagus), chestnut tree (Castanea), etc. Larvae feed under (or in) the bark of sun-exposed standing or fallen trunks and thick branches.

Body length:	10 - 20 mm
Life cycle:	1 - 2 years
Adults in:	May - July
Host plant:	polyphagous in deciduous trees, in Central Europe prefers oak (Quercus)
Distribution:	Europe, Russia, Caucasus, North Kazakhstan, Transcaucasia, Iran, Near East

The beetles in copula (and both mounted specimens) were reared from larvae found under a thick bark of a dead standing oak (Quercus sp.) trunk in Zbečno (Central Bohemia, Czech Republic) where the species is quite common (Rejzek and Rebl, 1999). The male of Plagionotus detritus was collected and photographed on an oak log in Zbraslav (Prague, Central Bohemia, Czech Republic).

Collected by M.Hoskovec.

Photo © M.Hoskovec

Photo © M.Hoskovec