Xylopteryx prasinaria
In 3 days ~20% in a week ~30%
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Addo Elephant National Park | 🇿🇦 South Africa |
More parks will be added in future updates.
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Lichen Bark sighting in Addo Elephant National Park on a given day, based on 7 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 114th most-seen of the 198 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 20%, and over a week to about 30%, if each day is a fresh chance.
January, March–April, July, September and November
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Lichen Bark in Addo Elephant National Park on a given day, against under 5% in February, May–June, August, October and December, the lowest months.
Between 8 and 11 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Lichen Bark sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 pm and 6 am: it is mostly seen at night.
Only Addo Elephant National Park, in our data
Addo Elephant National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Lichen Bark sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same family: Geometridae
The closest relatives of the Lichen Bark that you can see in Addo Elephant National Park (family Geometridae, Geometer Moths) are Inoffensive Vestal (about 10%), Vestal (about 10%) and Whiterim Chlorissa (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Lichen Bark is recorded against all the insects logged in Addo Elephant National Park (7 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.
