[Photo © M.Hoskovec]

Biology of this interesting beetle was described in work of Rejzek and Rebl (1999), details with pictures are presented in this page.

Body length:	12 - 19 mm
Life cycle:	3 and more years
Adults in:	June - August
Host plant:	polyphagous in deciduous trees (Fagus, Quercus, Aesculus etc.)
Distribution:	Central and SE Europe, Asia Minor, Caucasus and Iran

The depicted beetles were captured on wing, flying around very old and partially dead horse-chestnut (Aesculus hippocastanum) in Valtice (South Moravia, Czech Republic).

Collected by M.Hoskovec

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Rejzek M. and Rébl K.:
Cerambycidae of Křivoklátsko Biosphere Reserve (Central Bohemia) (Insecta: Coleoptera).
Mitteilungen des Internationalen Entomologischen Vereins e. V., Frankfurt a. Main, Supplement VI: 1–69, 1999.

Subfamilia: Lepturinae Latreille, 1802
Tribus: Lepturini Latreille, 1802
Genus: Stictoleptura Casey, 1924
Subgenus: Stictoleptura Casey, 1924
Species: Stictoleptura erythroptera (Hagenbach, 1822)