Cryptoglossa infausta
In 3 days ~20% in a week ~50%
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Big Bend National Park | 🇺🇸 United States |
More parks will be added in future updates.
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Cryptoglossa infausta sighting in Big Bend National Park on a given day, based on 16 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 122nd most-seen of the 329 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 20%, and over a week to about 50%, if each day is a fresh chance.
May
In that month about 20% of wildlife watchers report a Cryptoglossa infausta in Big Bend National Park on a given day, against under 5% in June, August and November–February, the lowest months.
Between 8 and 11 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Cryptoglossa infausta sightings with a recorded time, and about 8 in 10 of them come between 6 pm and 6 am: it is mostly seen at night.
Only Big Bend National Park, in our data
Big Bend National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Cryptoglossa infausta sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same family: Tenebrionidae
The closest relatives of the Cryptoglossa infausta that you can see in Big Bend National Park (family Tenebrionidae, Darkling Beetles) are Eleodes spinipes (about 20%), Eleodes knullorum (about 10%) and Eleodes carbonaria (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Cryptoglossa infausta is recorded against all the insects logged in Big Bend National Park (16 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.
