Cyrtacanthacris tatarica
In 3 days ~40% in a week ~70%
Cyrtacanthacris tatarica, the brown-spotted locust, is a species of bird grasshopper in the family Acrididae. It is found in the Afrotropics and Indomalaya. Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nairobi National Park | 🇰🇪 Kenya | |
| 2 | Ngorongoro Conservation Area | 🇹🇿 Tanzania | |
| 3 | Serengeti National Park | 🇹🇿 Tanzania | |
| 4 | Kruger National Park | 🇿🇦 South Africa |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nairobi | 🇰🇪 Kenya | |
| 2 | Ho Chi Minh City | 🇻🇳 Vietnam | |
| 3 | Coimbatore | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 4 | Dhaka | 🇧🇩 Bangladesh | |
| 5 | Bengaluru | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 6 | Hyderabad | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 7 | Pune | 🇮🇳 India |
Possible
About 20% of wildlife watchers report a Brown‐spotted Locust sighting in Ho Chi Minh City on a given day, based on 19 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 36th most-seen of the 121 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 40%, and over a week to about 70%, if each day is a fresh chance.
August
In that month about 30% of wildlife watchers report a Brown‐spotted Locust in Ho Chi Minh City on a given day, against about 10% in March, July, September–October and December–January, the lowest months. That is one of Ho Chi Minh City's wettest months, with about 190 mm of rain against 5 mm in February.
Between 8 and 11 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Brown‐spotted Locust sightings with a recorded time, and about 8 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Among the best
Of the 7 cities where we can rate Brown‐spotted Locust sightings, Ho Chi Minh City ranks 2nd at about 20%, level with the leaders once rounded. The best odds are in Nairobi (Kenya, about 20%).
Same family: Acrididae
The closest relatives of the Brown‐spotted Locust that you can see in Ho Chi Minh City (family Acrididae, Short-horned Grasshoppers) are Short-Winged Rice Grasshopper (about 30%), Rufous-Legged Grasshopper (about 10%) and Carinate Locust (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Brown‐spotted Locust is recorded against all the insects logged in Ho Chi Minh City (19 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.
