Body length:	7 - 15 mm
Life cycle:	at least 2 years
Adults in:	May - August
Host plant:	larvae in underground parts of living plants (Knautia, Scabiosa)
Distribution:	SE of Central Europe, South Europe, North Africa, Turkey, Transcaucasia, Caucasus, Near East, Kazakhstan, North Iran

The depicted beetle was collected on flowering Euphorbia in Kamenica nad Hronom (South Slovakia).

Collected by M.Hoskovec