Pingasa distensaria
In 3 days ~20% in a week ~40%
Pingasa distensaria is a moth of the family Geometridae first described by Francis Walker in 1860. It is found in Africa. Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Garden Route National Park | 🇿🇦 South Africa | |
| 2 | Table Mountain National Park | 🇿🇦 South Africa |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Johannesburg | 🇿🇦 South Africa |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Scribbled Duster sighting in Johannesburg on a given day, based on 15 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 105th 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 40%, if each day is a fresh chance.
January–May, August and November
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Scribbled Duster in Johannesburg on a given day, against under 5% in June–July, September–October and December, the lowest months.
Between 10 am and 1 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Scribbled Duster sightings with a recorded time, and about 8 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 Scribbled Duster sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same family: Geometridae
The closest relatives of the Scribbled Duster that you can see in Johannesburg (family Geometridae, Geometer Moths) are Vestal (about 10%), Black Wave (about 10%) and Triple-Stripe Peacock (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Scribbled Duster is recorded against all the insects logged in Johannesburg (15 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.
