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Stoermeriana scapulosa
In 3 days ~20% in a week ~30%
| # | 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 | Cape Town | 🇿🇦 South Africa |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Stoermeriana scapulosa sighting in Cape Town on a given day, based on 38 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 95th most-seen of the 311 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 20%, and over a week to about 30%, if each day is a fresh chance.
June–July, September and November–March
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Stoermeriana scapulosa in Cape Town on a given day, against under 5% in April–May, August and October, the lowest months.
Between 4 and 7 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Stoermeriana scapulosa 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 Cape Town, in our data
Cape Town is the only city on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Stoermeriana scapulosa sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same family: Lasiocampidae
The closest relatives of the Stoermeriana scapulosa that you can see in Cape Town (family Lasiocampidae, Lappet Moths) are Cape Lappet (about 20%), Mountain White-Spot (about 10%) and Barred Eggarlet (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Stoermeriana scapulosa is recorded against all the insects logged in Cape Town (38 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.
