This species has recently been introduced accidentally to Europe, and is known from Switzerland, Germany, the Netherlands, France, Italy, Slovenia, Slovakia, Hungary, Czechia, Austria, Belgium, Poland, Ukraine, Romania, San Marino and Croatia.

[4] Males and females posture and strut on rotting trees or logs with their wings raised vertically and pointed forward.

The resemblance to a peacock's tail is enhanced by blue reflections.

29.08.2016 - New record from Slovakia, Laco Tábi, Radošina (Čertova pec), det.

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