Body length:	10 - 22 mm
Life cycle:	1 year
Adults in:	April - July
Host plant:	polyphagous in herbaceous plants (Carduus, Onopordon, Cirsium, Heracleum, Daucus, Ferula etc.)
Distribution:	Europe except North, Russia, Caucasus, Kazakhstan

The depicted beetle was collected on the host plant (Cirsium sp.) in Hegyfarok at Štúrovo (South Slovakia).

Collected by M.Hoskovec