Toxorhynchites brevipalpis
In 3 days ~10% in a week ~30%
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | iSimangaliso Wetland Park | 🇿🇦 South Africa |
More parks will be added in future updates.
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Durban | 🇿🇦 South Africa |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Southern African Elephant Mosquito sighting in Durban on a given day, based on 13 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 176th most-seen of the 401 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 10%, and over a week to about 30%, if each day is a fresh chance.
March and October–January
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Southern African Elephant Mosquito in Durban on a given day, against under 5% in February and April–September, the lowest months. Those are among Durban's wettest months, with about 180 mm of rain a month against 25 mm in June.
Between 4 and 7 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Southern African Elephant Mosquito sightings with a recorded time, and about 6 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is most active around dawn and dusk.
Only Durban, in our data
Durban is the only city on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Southern African Elephant Mosquito sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same order: Diptera
The closest relatives of the Southern African Elephant Mosquito that you can see in Durban (order Diptera, Flies) are Green Jewel Fly (about 10%), Isomerocera quadrilineata (about 10%) and Black Soldier Fly (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Southern African Elephant Mosquito is recorded against all the insects logged in Durban (13 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.
