Photo © M.Hoskovec

In Europe a very common species developing in a variety of herbaceous plants (eg. Cardus, Urtica, Angelica, Chaerophyllum, Artemisia, Salvia, Aconitum). Like the other species of Agapanthia genus, the larvae of this beetle develop in the above-ground plant tissues (stalks). They cut off the plant stalk before pupation, create the pupal cells near ground level, and the adults leave the stalks via a newly created exit hole in the side of the remaining stalk.

Body length:	10 - 22 mm
Life cycle:	1 year
Adults in:	May - August
Host plant:	polyphagous in herbaceous plants
Distribution:	Europe, Russia, Caucasus, Kazakhstan, Turkey, Near East

Collected by M.Rejzek.

Photo © M.Hoskovec