Pseudagrion hageni
In 3 days ~20% in a week ~50%
Pseudagrion hageni is a species of damselfly in the family Coenagrionidae. Common names include painted sprite and Hagen's sprite. It is found from South Africa to Kenya, Uganda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Angola (including Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi, and Tanzania). Its natural habitats are shaded streams in subtropical or tropical forest, thicket and bush. Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kibale National Park | 🇺🇬 Uganda | |
| 2 | Garden Route National Park | 🇿🇦 South Africa | |
| 3 | Kruger National Park | 🇿🇦 South Africa |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Durban | 🇿🇦 South Africa |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Hagen's Sprite sighting in Durban on a given day, based on 46 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 63rd most-seen of the 401 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 20%, and over a week to about 50%, if each day is a fresh chance.
December to October
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Hagen's Sprite in Durban on a given day, against under 5% in November, the lowest month.
Between 10 am and 1 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Hagen's Sprite sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Durban, in our data
Durban is the only city on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Hagen's Sprite sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same genus: Pseudagrion
The closest relatives of the Hagen's Sprite that you can see in Durban (genus Pseudagrion, Sprites) are Powder-Faced Sprite (about 10%), Salisbury Sprite (about 10%) and Maasai Sprite (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Hagen's Sprite is recorded against all the insects logged in Durban (46 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.
