Trithemis stictica
In 3 days ~20% in a week ~30%
Trithemis stictica, the Jaunty Dropwing, is a species of dragonfly in the family Libellulidae. Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Garden Route National Park | 🇿🇦 South Africa | |
| 2 | iSimangaliso Wetland Park | 🇿🇦 South Africa | |
| 3 | Table Mountain National Park | 🇿🇦 South Africa |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Johannesburg | 🇿🇦 South Africa |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Jaunty Dropwing sighting in Johannesburg on a given day, based on 16 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 126th most-seen of the 213 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 20%, and over a week to about 30%, if each day is a fresh chance.
November to February
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Jaunty Dropwing in Johannesburg on a given day, against under 5% in March to October, the lowest months. Those are among Johannesburg's wettest months, with about 110 mm of rain a month against almost none in July.
Between 10 am and 1 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Jaunty Dropwing 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 Johannesburg, in our data
Johannesburg is the only city on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Jaunty Dropwing sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same genus: Trithemis
The closest relatives of the Jaunty Dropwing that you can see in Johannesburg (genus Trithemis, Dropwings) are Orange-Winged Dropwing (about 10%) and Red-Veined Dropwing (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Jaunty Dropwing is recorded against all the insects logged in Johannesburg (16 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.
