Body length:	4 - 8 mm
Life cycle:	1 - 2 years
Adults in:	April - August
Host plant:	dying pine (Pinus) branches (P. halepensis, P. nigra, P. pinaster, P. salzmanni)
Distribution:	Albania, Algeria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Corsica, Croatia, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Israel, Italy, Morocco, Sardinia, Sicily, Spain, Tunisia, Turkey

The living beetle was reared from a larva found in a dead pine (Pinus sp.) twig collected in envrirons of Novi Vinodolski (Primorje-Gorski Kotar, North-West Croatia). The mounted specimen was collected by our friend Manfred Niehuis in Rab Island (Dalmatia, Croatia).