Body length:	8 - 12 mm
Life cycle:	1 year
Adults in:	May - July
Host plant:	Anchusa barrelieri
Distribution:	Serbia, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Moldova, Ukraine, Armenia, Turkey

Depicted beetle was captured on the host plant in Dombegyház environs (Békés county, SE Hungary) on May 14, 2006. Biology and ecology of this rare and beautiful species is well decribed in a recent paper by Andrei Crișan et al. [❖].

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Crișan A., Manci C.-O., Ruicănescu A. & Rákosy L.:
Information about the biology, ecology and distribution of Pilemia tigrina (Mulsant, 1851), in Romania (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae).
Entomologica Romanica 21: 9-14, 2017. [download ]

Özdikmen H. and Turgut S.:
An overview on the palaearctic subgenus Phytoecia (Pilemia) Fairmaire, 1864, with a new species Phytoecia (Pilemia) samii sp. n. from Turkey (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Lamiinae).
Munis Entomology & Zoology 5 (1): 90-108, 2010. [download ]