Phalaenoides tristifica
In 3 days ~10% in a week ~30%
Phalaenoides tristifica, the willow-herb day, is a moth of the family Noctuidae that is native to southeastern Australia. The species was first described by Jacob Hübner in 1818. Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kosciuszko National Park | 🇦🇺 Australia | |
| 2 | Great Otway National Park | 🇦🇺 Australia | |
| 3 | Grampians National Park | 🇦🇺 Australia |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Melbourne | 🇦🇺 Australia |
Rare
Under 5% of wildlife watchers report a Willow-Herb Day-Moth sighting in Melbourne on a given day, based on 59 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 243rd most-seen of the 875 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.
October to February
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Willow-Herb Day-Moth in Melbourne on a given day, against under 5% in March to September, the lowest months.
Between 9 am and noon
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Willow-Herb Day-Moth 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 Melbourne, in our data
Melbourne is the only city on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Willow-Herb Day-Moth sightings: under 5% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Willow-Herb Day-Moth is recorded against all the insects logged in Melbourne (59 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.
