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Body length : 15-23mm.
Host plant : Polyphagous.
Found in old deciduous woodlands, especially mature beech forests, pasture woodlands and humid broadleaf forests with abundant dead wood.
Leptura aurulenta is often associated with ancient forests.
The adults feed on pollen and nectar of flowers.
The larvae develop in damp dead trunks, stumps, thick branches and rotten wood, often heavily decomposed by fungi.
Recorded host plants : Alnus sp., Betula sp., Carpinus sp., Castanea sp., Fagus sp., Juglans sp., Populus sp., Quercus sp., Salix sp., Ulmus sp.
