This species is present in Central Europe, in the Alps, Carpathian Mountains, Balkan Peninsula, Crimea, and in the Nearctic realm.

It occurs in Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Germany, Hungary, Northern Italy, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Switzerland, and Ukraine.

[1][2] This species normally inhabits mountainous and submontane areas, valleys of rivers and streams and moist mid-forest clearings.

These beetles can be found on grasses and flowers of grasslands and glades.

[4] These large and colorful click beetles have yellowish or reddish-brown elytra.