What Animal Lives Where

Where has the Mediterranean Spotted Chafer been recorded?

Oxythyrea funesta occurrence evidence comes from 3,901 records in 34 countries and territories, from 1863 to 2026. Most records come from Germany.

InsectaColeopteraScarabaeidaeOxythyrea

Observation evidence passport

Evidence found

3,901 records across 34 countries and territories, 1863–2026.

Oxythyrea funesta · GBIF taxon key 1077130

Source coverage

CC0 GBIF Animalia occurrence facets, including country, month and year summaries.

Refreshed 2026-09-21. Inspect the taxon on GBIF.

What this means

The species has been recorded in the listed places in the stated source universe. Peak month: May.

5 months reach at least 10% of the peak facet count.

What this does not mean

repeated describes the record pattern, not a formal range, residency, abundance or conservation assessment.

A single record remains evidence of a recording, not proof that a population lives there.

Compare this animal’s observation pattern

When it is recorded

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Peak month: May. Records cluster in the months an animal is present and being looked for, so a summer peak can reflect observer effort as much as the animal.

Records over time

18632026

Recording effort has risen steeply almost everywhere since the 1990s, so a rising line usually shows more observers rather than more animals.

Where Mediterranean Spotted Chafer has been recorded

The countries below show where occurrence evidence exists for Mediterranean Spotted Chafer. They do not define a complete habitat range: survey effort differs by place, and historical or one-off records can appear alongside repeated presence.

PlaceRecordsShare
Germany 1,747
France 517
Austria 364
Russia 251
Italy 168
Spain 147
Switzerland 134
Sweden 102
Portugal 79
Ukraine 45
Czechia 44
Netherlands 37
Greece 34
Bulgaria 33
Luxembourg 31
Poland 27
Croatia 24
Belgium 22
Hungary 14
Malta 12
United Kingdom 10
Lithuania 9
Latvia 9
Slovakia 9
Belarus 6
Estonia 6
Morocco 6
Romania 5
Bosnia & Herzegovina 2
Serbia 2
Slovenia 2
Algeria 1
Finland 1
Kazakhstan 1

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Record pattern: repeated
Repeated records across many years and months. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map — treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.