#3468 · 🪲 beetles
Yellow-legged Thick-legged Flower Beetle
Oedemera flavipes
🪲 Beetles 📍 in Europe, not in NL
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what is it?
Oedemera flavipes is a very common species of beetle belonging to the family Oedemeridae subfamily Oedemerinae.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 7,407 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1792 (234 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Yellow-legged Thick-legged Flower Beetle
- scientific name
- Oedemera flavipes
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Coleoptera
- family
- Oedemeridae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings in Europe
- 5,829
- sightings worldwide
- 7,407
- GBIF records in NL
- 15
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1792 by Johan Christian Fabricius
relatives· Oedemeridae
#3178 📷 7Thick-legged Flower Beetle
🇳🇱 Fraaie Schijnbok
Oedemera nobilis
👀 629 in NL
#3249 📷 10Oedemera croceicollis
Oedemera croceicollis
👀 128 in NL
#3255 📷 10Oedemera lurida
Oedemera lurida
👀 115 in NL
#3329 📷 10Chrysanthia geniculata
Chrysanthia geniculata
👀 53 in NL
#3465 📷 10Dikdijkever
Oedemera podagrariae
🌍 9.3k seen
#3469 📷 7Oedemera femorata
Oedemera femorata
🌍 7.2k seen
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 319088, Wikidata Q291959, GBIF 4458531, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.