Iridescent insect id please

[groveworks]

Hi Friends,

I got this photo yesterday at Little Wormwood Scrubs - by mistake! My three-year-old said 'take a picture of those flowers daddy'. It was only when I got home that I noticed the insect. Any help with id much appreciated - couldn't find it in my Collins Field Guide.

all best - Groveworks

[Hedera]

It's a thick-thighed flower beetle - Oedemera nobilis. I got one earlier, quite a surprise. Very glamorous beetle, not so the name!

[LoveT]

Hi

It looks to me like a False Oil Beetle - Odemera nobilis. Totally harmless and very pretty to look at (I think so, anyway!)

Thea

[groveworks]

Thanks very much Hedera - quick work! Of course, now that I've got the name, I've found it in the Collins.

all best - Groveworks

[groveworks]

And thanks Thea - pipped at the post by one minute! Interesting the two quite different common names - thick-thighed flower beetle and false oil beetle.

all best - Groveworks

[Paul mabbott]

Originally Posted by groveworks

.........! Interesting the two quite different common names - thick-thighed flower beetle and false oil beetle.
...........

Yes, interesting - I've never heard of a 'false oil beetle'. See plenty of uses of it on the net but not by entomologists!

[charlieb]

I've seen them called "false blister beetles"

[Adam Cheeseman]

and it's a male!

Cheers,

Adam