Temnorhynchus retusus
In 3 days ~30% in a week ~60%
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Table Mountain National Park | 🇿🇦 South Africa | |
| 2 | Garden Route National Park | 🇿🇦 South Africa |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cape Town | 🇿🇦 South Africa |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Cape Flatface Rhino Beetle sighting in Cape Town on a given day, based on 161 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 28th most-seen of the 311 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 20% of wildlife watchers report a Cape Flatface Rhino Beetle in Cape Town on a given day, against about 10% in June to April, the lowest months.
Between 4 and 7 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Cape Flatface Rhino Beetle sightings with a recorded time, and about 7 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Cape Town, in our data
Cape Town is the only city on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Cape Flatface Rhino Beetle sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same family: Scarabaeidae
The closest relatives of the Cape Flatface Rhino Beetle that you can see in Cape Town (family Scarabaeidae, Scarabs) are White-Spotted Fruit Chafer (about 10%), Garden Fruit Chafer (about 10%) and Large Black Nest Chafer (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Cape Flatface Rhino Beetle is recorded against all the insects logged in Cape Town (161 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.
