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False Oil Beetle

Oedemera nobilis

21,524Records since 2000
JunePeak month
83Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb0
Mar1
Apr22
May5,510
Jun11,107
Jul3,868
Aug547
Sep64
Oct3
Nov1
Dec0

GBIF records by month, 2000–2025 (all years combined).

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Kent England1,001
2Norfolk England674
3Essex England617
4Cambridgeshire England601
5Cornwall England542
6Worcestershire England490
7Suffolk England467
8Dorset England465
9Oxfordshire England434
10Devon England405
11Somerset England388
12Northamptonshire England349
13Surrey England343
14Lincolnshire England269
15Nottinghamshire England259
19,473 England12 Scotland1,898 Wales

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 83 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
21,524
Peak month
June
Counties with records
83
Scientific name
Oedemera nobilis
Group
Beetles
NBN Atlas records since 2000
17,896
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Oedemeridae
Genus
Oedemera
Name with authority
Oedemera nobilis (Scopoli, 1763)
Described
1763
Contributing datasets
26

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q1533325 · GBIF 4458482