Locris areata
In 3 days ~10% in a week ~30%
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | iSimangaliso Wetland Park | 🇿🇦 South Africa | |
| 2 | Kruger National Park | 🇿🇦 South Africa |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Durban | 🇿🇦 South Africa |
Rare
Under 5% of wildlife watchers report a Zooty Red Spittlebug sighting in Durban on a given day, based on 7 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 287th 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–April, October and December
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Zooty Red Spittlebug in Durban on a given day, against under 5% in January–February, May–September and November, the lowest months.
Between 8 and 11 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Zooty Red Spittlebug sightings with a recorded time, and nearly all 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 Zooty Red Spittlebug sightings: under 5% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same order: Hemiptera
The closest relatives of the Zooty Red Spittlebug that you can see in Durban (order Hemiptera, True Bugs, Hoppers, Aphids, and allies) are Tettigoniella cosmopolita (about 10%), Yellow Raintree Spittlebug (about 10%) and Ndebele Bug (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Zooty Red Spittlebug is recorded against all the insects logged in Durban (7 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.
