Subspecies include:[1] This species is present in most of Europe, the eastern Palearctic realm, and North Africa.

[3] The body is completely black, light haired, and the tibiae and femora of the middle and rear pairs of legs are reddish brown.

These wasps can be encountered from June through September[3] feeding on nectar and pollen of flowers (especially on Apiaceae species).

[3] Like most members of Tiphiidae, T. femorata parasitizes by stinging the larvae of various species of Scarabaeidae, though especially hunts beetles of Amphimallon solstitiale.

The females can smell larvae of beetles in the soil, then they dig up and drop an egg in their victims.