Body length:	7 - 15 mm
Life cycle:	2 - 3 years
Adults in:	May - July
Host plant:	polyphagous in coniferous trees (Picea, Abies, Larix)
Distribution:	Europe, West of European part of Russia

The living beetle in these was photographed on flowers in Margecany (NE Slovakia). The mounted specimen was reared from larva collected in dead fir (Abies alba) found in Úpoř creek valley (Central Bohemia, Czech Republic).

Collected by M.Hoskovec