[2] This species has an evident sexual dimorphism, with variations in color and shape.

Moreover the males have brown or pale ochre elytrae and often they are smaller and narrower than the females.

They visit flowering plants for nectar and/or pollen, while larvae develop and feed within dead wood and tree stumps of coniferous trees (Picea, Pinus, Abies, Larix).

[5][6] Their gut contains cellulase-producing yeasts[7] to enable xylophagy, or wood-digestion.

The species is found throughout the European mainland, Russia and North Africa.