Body length : 6-10mm.
Host plant : Polyphagous.
Found in warm and open habitats, such as open deciduous woodlands, woodland edges, hedgerows, claerings, orchards and scrub.
Adults can often be found visiting flowers, especially umbellifers.
The larvae develop in dead or dying wood of various deciduous trees and shrubs.
Recorded host plants : Alnus sp., Betula sp., Corylus sp., Prunus sp., Quercus sp., …