A univoltine species, flying from late April or early May to mid-September. Mavromoustakis (1948; 1951) reports flight activity in April and May in Cyprus.
Baldock et al. (in prep.) report flight activity in, at least, March in the Balearic Islands (Spain).
Parasites: Reported by Latreille (1809) to be the host of the bee Stelis ruficornis