Eleodes suturalis
In 3 days ~20% in a week ~40%
Eleodes suturalis is a species of darkling beetle. As currently known, it is endemic to the United States. Their range extends from South Dakota to Texas and west to southwestern Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, and extreme southeastern Arizona, and probably into Mexico. Males measure 25–36 mm (1.0–1.4 in) and females 21.5–33.5 mm (0.8–1.3 in) in length. They can be easily identified by the distinctive red stripe which goes down the center of their flat elytra. Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Badlands National Park | 🇺🇸 United States |
More parks will be added in future updates.
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Denver | 🇺🇸 United States |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Red-Backed Darkling Beetle sighting in Denver on a given day, based on 71 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 87th most-seen of the 461 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 20%, and over a week to about 40%, if each day is a fresh chance.
May–August and October
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Red-Backed Darkling Beetle in Denver on a given day, against under 5% in September and November–April, the lowest months.
Between 5 and 8 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Red-Backed Darkling Beetle sightings with a recorded time, and about 6 in 10 of them come between 6 pm and 6 am: it is most active around dawn and dusk.
Only Denver, in our data
Denver is the only city on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Red-Backed Darkling Beetle sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Red-Backed Darkling Beetle is recorded against all the insects logged in Denver (71 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.
