The males have a continuous (although incrementally shorter toward middle) brush of golden hair at the apex of the abdomen.

Larval galleries located on lower parts of the trunk are imprinted on the inner surface of the cortex, sometimes on the sapwood too to some extent.

After emerging, adult beetles feed on the crotches of young twigs, and leaf petioles.

In Russia, approximately as far east as Irkutsk Oblast and as far north as the southern boundary of the taiga zone.

[2][3][5][6] Reported host plants are primarily elms, but also, common ash, common walnut tree, Caucasian zelkova, as well as a number of trees in the genera Prunus (stone fruits), Quercus (oaks), Salix (willows), and Populus (for black poplar and aspen).