Status: Widespread but scattered; can be locally common, but appears to have declined since 1970. Scarce (Notable B)
Habitat: Various
Host plant: Usually alder and birch, also on other trees.
Overwintering: As larvae
Food: Adults on birch leaves, larvae on roots of grasses

Status: Very local and patchy in England and Wales only. Scarce (Notable B)
Habitat: Calcareous grassland, woodland clearings, heathland, roadside verges, sand pits and sand dunes.
Host plant: Various mulleins, Verbascum spp.
Overwintering: As adults, probably also as larvae, and possibly also as eggs (i.e. probably two generations per year).
Food: Adults on leaves, larvae at roots.
Other notes: Adults may be parasitised by an unidentified nematode. Similar to L. nigrofasciatus, but elytral punctures coarser and denser than on pronotum.

Status: Widespread and common
Habitat: Various
Host plant: Various Asteraceae
Overwintering: As adults in haystacks, grass tussocks and moss on logs.
Food: Adults on leaves, larvae at roots (though the larval host range is somewhat uncertain and only confirmed for groundsel Senecio vulgaris)
Other notes: Adults parasitised by larvae of a braconid wasp, probably Perilitus sp.

Status: Widely scattered, mainly England and Wales.
Habitat: Various
Host plant: Plantains (Plantago spp.), occasionally (and probably accidentally) on other plants.
Overwintering: As adults
Food: Adults on leaves, larvae at roots.
Other notes: Adults parasitised by larvae of a braconid wasp, probably Perilitus sp. Elytra more elongate than in L. pratensis, which has the head dark brown to blackish, sometimes pitchy.