Dociostaurus brevicollis (Eversmann, 1848)

Habitat:
Dociostaurus brevicollis inhabits similar to its congeners dry and warm places such as coastal dunes, gappy pastures and fields or stony slopes and dry river beds.

Remarks:
In Europe Dociostaurus brevicollis occurs only in the Southeast (Balkan Peninsula from eastern and southern Austria and Hungary to Greece).

Literature:
As in the SW-European D. genei and jagoi hind femora are blackish blue or blue and not red.