Ammalo helops
In 3 days ~30% in a week ~50%
Ammalo helops is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Pieter Cramer in 1775. It is found in Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Honduras, Panama, Jamaica, Cuba, Haiti, Grenada, Trinidad, Amazonas, Brazil, Venezuela, Suriname, Peru and Colombia. Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Blue and John Crow Mountains National Park | 🇯🇲 Jamaica | |
| 2 | Main Ridge Forest Reserve | 🇹🇹 Trinidad and Tobago | |
| 3 | Tayrona National Natural Park | 🇨🇴 Colombia | |
| 4 | Soberanía National Park | 🇵🇦 Panama |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Caracas | 🇻🇪 Venezuela |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report an Ammalo helops sighting in Caracas on a given day, based on 23 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 29th most-seen of the 107 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 30%, and over a week to about 50%, if each day is a fresh chance.
July and September–October
In those months about 20% of wildlife watchers report an Ammalo helops in Caracas on a given day, against under 5% in December to May, the lowest months.
Between 9 pm and midnight
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Ammalo helops sightings with a recorded time, and about 8 in 10 of them come between 6 pm and 6 am: it is mostly seen at night.
Only Caracas, in our data
Caracas is the only city on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Ammalo helops sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Ammalo helops is recorded against all the insects logged in Caracas (23 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.
