Phoberus horridus
In 3 days ~10% in a week ~20%
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
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| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
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| 1 | Cape Town | 🇿🇦 South Africa |
Rare
Under 5% of wildlife watchers report a Hideous Keratin Beetle sighting in Cape Town on a given day, based on 17 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 174th most-seen of the 311 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 10%, and over a week to about 20%, if each day is a fresh chance.
April and June–July
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Hideous Keratin Beetle in Cape Town on a given day, against under 5% in May and August–March, the lowest months. Those are among Cape Town's wettest months, with about 100 mm of rain a month against 15 mm in February.
Only Cape Town, in our data
Cape Town is the only city on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Hideous Keratin Beetle sightings: under 5% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same order: Coleoptera
The closest relatives of the Hideous Keratin Beetle that you can see in Cape Town (order Coleoptera, Beetles) are Spotted Blisterbeetle (about 20%), Lunate Lady Beetle (about 10%) and Asian Lady Beetle (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Hideous Keratin Beetle is recorded against all the insects logged in Cape Town (17 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.
