Deroplax silphoides
In 3 days ~40% in a week ~70%
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Table Mountain National Park | 🇿🇦 South Africa |
More parks will be added in future updates.
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cairo | 🇪🇬 Egypt |
Possible
About 20% of wildlife watchers report a Common Voodoo Shieldbug sighting in Cairo on a given day, based on 13 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 17th most-seen of the 38 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 40%, and over a week to about 70%, if each day is a fresh chance.
May and June
In those months about 40% of wildlife watchers report a Common Voodoo Shieldbug in Cairo on a given day, against under 5% in April and July–February, the lowest months.
Between 9 am and noon
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Common Voodoo Shieldbug 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 Cairo, in our data
Cairo is the only city on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Common Voodoo Shieldbug sightings: about 20% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same order: Hemiptera
The closest relatives of the Common Voodoo Shieldbug that you can see in Cairo (order Hemiptera, True Bugs, Hoppers, Aphids, and allies) are Indian Milkweed Bug (about 40%), Breadfruit Mealybug (about 20%) and Oleander Aphid (about 20%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Common Voodoo Shieldbug is recorded against all the insects logged in Cairo (13 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.
