[Photo © Milan Lovětínský]

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 living beetle was found in hollow in the living beech (Fagus sylvestris) in Křivoklátsko Protected Landscape Area (Central Bohemia, Czechia). The mounted specimens were captured on wing, flying around very old and partially dead horse-chestnut (Aesculus hippocastanum) in Valtice (South Moravia, Czech Republic).

Collected by Miroslav Polcar and 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)