Photo © M.Hoskovec

Photo © M.Hoskovec

Body length:	10 - 20 mm
Life cycle:	2 years
Adults in:	May - September
Host plant:	polyphagous in deciduous trees (especially in Populus, also in Fagus, Salix, Betula, Acer, Tilia etc.)
Distribution:	Europe, Caucasus, Transcaucasia, Turkey, North Iran

The living beetle was photographed on a poplar log (Populus sp.) near Bitlis (East Turkey). The mounted beetles were reared from larvae collected in a dead branch of white poplar (Populus alba) in Pouzdřany (South Moravia, Czech Republic).

Collected by M.Hoskovec.

Photo © M.Hoskovec