Body length:	16 - 30 mm
Life cycle:	2 - 3 years
Adults in:	May - August
Host plant:	polyphagous in deciduous trees
Distribution:	SE and SW Europe, North Africa

The living beetle was reared from a larva collected in South France. The mounted beetle was collected in Ropotamo (South Bulgaria).

Collected by M.Rejzek and J.Vlasák

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The taxonomic Gordian knot of the Ropalopus ungaricus/insubricus group was elegantly cut by our Polish friends (Lech KARPIŃSKI, Wojciech T. SZCZEPAŃSKI and Lech KRUSZELNICKI) in their latest brilliant publication:

Karpiński L., Szczepański W.T. & Kruszelnicki L.:
Revision of the Ropalopus ungaricus/insubricus group (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Callidiini) from the western Palaearctic region.
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society XX: 1–41, 2020. [download ]