Mecodema costellum
In 3 days ~30% in a week ~50%
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Abel Tasman National Park | 🇳🇿 New Zealand |
More parks will be added in future updates.
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Mecodema costellum sighting in Abel Tasman National Park on a given day, based on 8 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 35th most-seen of the 64 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 30%, and over a week to about 50%, if each day is a fresh chance.
May, August, October and December
In those months about 20% of wildlife watchers report a Mecodema costellum in Abel Tasman National Park on a given day, against under 5% in January–April, June–July and September, the lowest months.
Between 8 and 11 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Mecodema costellum sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Abel Tasman National Park, in our data
Abel Tasman National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Mecodema costellum sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same genus: Mecodema
The closest relatives of the Mecodema costellum that you can see in Abel Tasman National Park (genus Mecodema) are Mecodema crenicolle (about 20%) and Mecodema strictum (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Mecodema costellum is recorded against all the insects logged in Abel Tasman National Park (8 verified sightings from 2019 to 2026), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
