This species has a Palearctic distribution (Europe, Central Asia, China and the Russian Far East).

[1][2][3][4] In Europe it is present in Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France (including Corsica), Spain, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Latvia, Moldova, Germany, Norway, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Switzerland, Sweden, Ukraine, Hungary, Great Britain, and Italy (including Sardinia and Sicily).

[6] They are brightly colored metallic lustrous cuckoo wasps.

[1][2][3][4] Flight period extends from May to the end of August.

They can be found on dead wood (branches and trunks of Populus, Salix, Betula, Quercus) in open biotopes (the edges of forests, clearings, meadows, inland dunes or gardens, in places with dead wood of deciduous trees, often near wooden buildings).