Copera marginipes
In 3 days ~30% in a week ~60%
Copera marginipes, commonly known as the yellow bush dart, is a species of damselfly in the family Platycnemididae. It is native to Asia, where it is widespread and common. It is a medium sized damselfly with brown-capped yellow eyes with a narrow equatorial black band encircling them. Its thorax is black on dorsum with a yellow mid-dorsal carina and a narrow greenish-yellow humeral stripe, split in two and overlap each other. This stripe is followed by a broad black fascia, on the middle of the lateral side of the thorax, peppered with small pale yellow spots. The lateral sides beyond this is yellow, marked with an irregular black stripe on the anterior border of postero-lateral suture, and another one on the middle portion of metepimeron. Abdomen is black on dorsal half up to segment 8; paler on ventral half and with bluish-white basal annules. Segment 9 is bluish-white on dorsal half and black below it. Segment 10 is bluish-white.
Anal appendages are pale yellow to white, the inferiors tipped with black. The superiors are half the length of segment 10 and inferiors are at least four times the length of superiors. In the related species, Copera vittata... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Khao Sok National Park | 🇹🇭 Thailand | |
| 2 | Khao Yai National Park | 🇹🇭 Thailand | |
| 3 | Kaeng Krachan National Park | 🇹🇭 Thailand | |
| 4 | Doi Inthanon National Park | 🇹🇭 Thailand | |
| 5 | Cat Tien National Park | 🇻🇳 Vietnam | |
| 6 | Minneriya National Park | 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yogyakarta | 🇮🇩 Indonesia | |
| 2 | Colombo [Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte] | 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka | |
| 3 | Jakarta | 🇮🇩 Indonesia | |
| 4 | Tasikmalaya | 🇮🇩 Indonesia | |
| 5 | Taichung | 🇹🇼 Taiwan | |
| 6 | Thiruvananthapuram | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 7 | Xiamen City | 🇨🇳 China | |
| 8 | Tuen Mun | 🇨🇳 China | |
| 9 | Taipei | 🇹🇼 Taiwan | |
| 10 | Kozhikode | 🇮🇳 India |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Yellow Featherlegs sighting in Cat Tien National Park on a given day, based on 13 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 87th most-seen of the 125 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 30%, and over a week to about 60%, if each day is a fresh chance.
May
In that month about 40% of wildlife watchers report a Yellow Featherlegs in Cat Tien National Park on a given day, against under 5% in July to March, the lowest months.
Between 10 am and 1 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Yellow Featherlegs sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
5th of 6
Of the 6 parks where we can rate Yellow Featherlegs sightings, Cat Tien National Park ranks 5th at about 10%. The best odds are in Khao Sok National Park (Thailand, about 30%), Khao Yai National Park (Thailand, about 20%) and Kaeng Krachan National Park (Thailand, about 20%).
Same order: Odonata
The closest relatives of the Yellow Featherlegs that you can see in Cat Tien National Park (order Odonata, Dragonflies and Damselflies) are Russet Percher (about 40%), Chalky Percher (about 30%) and Asian Blood Tail (about 20%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Yellow Featherlegs is recorded against all the insects logged in Cat Tien National Park (13 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.
