Austropetalia patricia
In 3 days ~20% in a week ~50%
Austropetalia patricia is a species of dragonfly of the family Austropetaliidae, commonly known as the waterfall redspot. It is endemic to eastern New South Wales, Australia, where it inhabits mountain streams. It is a medium-sized dragonfly with brown and yellow markings.
The genus name Austropetalia combines the prefix austro- (from Latin auster, meaning “south wind”, hence “southern”) with Petalia, a genus name derived from Greek πέταλον (petalon, “petal”). In 1910, Robin Tillyard named this species patricia, an eponym honouring his wife.
List of Odonata species of Australia Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Blue Mountains National Park | 🇦🇺 Australia |
More parks will be added in future updates.
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Waterfall Redspot sighting in Blue Mountains National Park on a given day, based on 29 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 144th most-seen of the 789 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.
October
In that month about 30% of wildlife watchers report a Waterfall Redspot in Blue Mountains National Park on a given day, against under 5% in December to August, the lowest months.
Between 2 and 5 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Waterfall Redspot 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 Blue Mountains National Park, in our data
Blue Mountains National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Waterfall Redspot sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same order: Odonata
The closest relatives of the Waterfall Redspot that you can see in Blue Mountains National Park (order Odonata, Dragonflies and Damselflies) are Sydney Mountain Darner (about 20%), Common Flatwing (about 20%) and Eastern Evening Darner (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Waterfall Redspot is recorded against all the insects logged in Blue Mountains National Park (29 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.
