Ocybadistes ardea
In 3 days ~10% in a week ~30%
Ocybadistes ardea, the dark orange dart, is a butterfly of the family Hesperiidae. It is found in Indonesia (Papua, the Aru Islands, the Kei Islands), Australia (Queensland) and Papua New Guinea. The wingspan is about 20 mm. Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Daintree National Park | 🇦🇺 Australia |
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| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brisbane | 🇦🇺 Australia |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Dark Orange Dart sighting in Brisbane on a given day, based on 40 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 325th most-seen of the 1083 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 10%, and over a week to about 30%, if each day is a fresh chance.
December to May
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Dark Orange Dart in Brisbane on a given day, against under 5% in June to November, the lowest months.
Between 10 am and 1 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Dark Orange Dart sightings with a recorded time, and about 8 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Brisbane, in our data
Brisbane is the only city on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Dark Orange Dart sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same genus: Ocybadistes
The closest relatives of the Dark Orange Dart that you can see in Brisbane (genus Ocybadistes) are Yellow-Banded Dart (about 10%) and Narrow-Brand Grass-Dart (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Dark Orange Dart is recorded against all the insects logged in Brisbane (40 verified sightings), 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.
