Body length : 7-12mm.
Host plant : Polyphagous.
Found in warm, sunny deciduous woodlands, woodland edges, clearings, hedgerows and old orchards.
Adults feed on pollen and nectar and are frequently found on flowers, especially umbellifers, bramble and hawthorn.
The larvae develop in dead, dry branches and small trunks of deciduous trees, such as Abies sp., Betula sp., Fagus sp., Quercus sp., Sorbus sp., …
