#3178 · 🪲 beetles
Thick-legged Flower Beetle
🇳🇱 Fraaie Schijnbok ·Oedemera nobilis
🪲 Beetles 📍 in the Netherlands
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what is it?
Oedemera nobilis , also known as the false oil beetle , thick-legged flower beetle or swollen-thighed beetle , is a beetle in the family Oedemeridae, a common species in Western Europe, including the south of England.
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
- Spotted 629 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #16 most seen of the beetles in NL.
- 37,935 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- English
- Thick-legged Flower Beetle
- Nederlands
- Fraaie Schijnbok
- scientific name
- Oedemera nobilis
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Coleoptera
- family
- Oedemeridae
- sightings in NL
- 629
- sightings in Europe
- 36,855
- sightings worldwide
- 37,935
- GBIF records in NL
- 7,617
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
relatives· Oedemeridae
#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
#3468 📷 7Yellow-legged Thick-legged Flower Beetle
Oedemera flavipes
🌍 7.4k seen
#3469 📷 7Oedemera femorata
Oedemera femorata
🌍 7.2k seen
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 61844, Wikidata Q1533325, GBIF 4458482, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.