Adults of this beautiful species, active from late April through August, are flowers visitors and often have been beaten from blossoming hornbeams (Crataegus).

Body length:	9.0 – 17.4 mm
Life cycle:	at least 2 years
Adults in:	late April - August
Host plant:	polyphagous in deciduous trees (Corylus, Carpinus, Quercus, Fagus)
Distribution:	Russia: Caucasus, Azerbaidjan, Turkey, North Iran, South Bulgaria [❖]

The depicted beetle was beaten from blossoming Crataegus in Bolu environs (North Turkey).

Collected by our friend Jakub Rolčík

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Miroshnikov A.I.:
A review of the genus Paraclytus Bates, 1884, with the description of a new species from China (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae).
Konstantinov A. S., Slipinski S. A. & Solodovnikov A. Yu. (Editors): Advances in studies on Asian cerambycids, KMK Scientific Press Ltd., ISBN 978-5-87317-820-9, 73-132, 2014. [download ]

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Georgiev G.:
Notes on distribution, biology and ecology of Paraclytus sexguttatus (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae).
Fragmenta Entomologica, Roma 40 (1): 115-117, 2008. [download ]