The abdomen ends with a pair of hooked claspers in the male, a short ovipositor in the female.

[1] The species occurs in central, eastern, and southern Europe, and Palearctic Asia.

They live in relatively open areas such as farm meadows and pasture, and wilder dry grassland and scrubland.

They feed on a wide variety of other insects including aphids, beetles, hemipteran bugs, cockroaches, dipteran flies, and neuropterans.

[2] The species was named Libelloides macaronius by the Austrian naturalist Giovanni Antonio Scopoli in 1763.