This interesting and elegant Cerambycid species has been introduced to Europe (northern Adriatic) from North America in the XIXth century and is spreading now.

Body length:	7 - 15 mm
Life cycle:	1 - 2 years
Adults in:	April - August
Host plant:	polyphagous on a broad variety of deciduous trees
Distribution:	Austria, France, Croatia, Italy, Hungary, Slovenia, Switzerland

The depicted beetles were reared from larvae found in a dead trunk of lotusberry (Celtis australis). The trunk was collected in Šušnjevica (15 km east of Pazin, Istra peninsula, Croatia).

Collected by M.Hoskovec