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Tettigoniella cosmopolita
In 3 days ~30% in a week ~50%
| # | 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 Tettigoniella cosmopolita sighting in Durban on a given day, based on 38 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 54th most-seen of the 401 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.
October to December
In those months about 20% of wildlife watchers report a Tettigoniella cosmopolita in Durban on a given day, against under 5% in March and June–August, the lowest months. Those are among Durban's wettest months, with about 190 mm of rain a month against 25 mm in June.
Between 1 and 4 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Tettigoniella cosmopolita 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 Tettigoniella cosmopolita sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same order: Hemiptera
The closest relatives of the Tettigoniella cosmopolita that you can see in Durban (order Hemiptera, True Bugs, Hoppers, Aphids, and allies) are Yellow Raintree Spittlebug (about 10%), Ndebele Bug (about 10%) and Common Raintree Spittlebug (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Tettigoniella cosmopolita is recorded against all the insects logged in Durban (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.
