Teleopsis sykesii
In 3 days ~10% in a week ~30%
Teleopsis sykesii is the type species of the genus Teleopsis of stalk-eyed flies in the family Diopsidae, and was described from India. Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
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| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
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| 1 | Mumbai | 🇮🇳 India |
Rare
Under 5% of wildlife watchers report a Teleopsis sykesii sighting in Mumbai on a given day, based on 9 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 243rd most-seen of the 362 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.
July–August and December
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Teleopsis sykesii in Mumbai on a given day, against under 5% in January–June and September–November, the lowest months. Those are among Mumbai's wettest months, with about 480 mm of rain a month against almost none in January.
Between 9 am and noon
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Teleopsis sykesii 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 Mumbai, in our data
Mumbai is the only city on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Teleopsis sykesii sightings: under 5% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same order: Diptera
The closest relatives of the Teleopsis sykesii that you can see in Mumbai (order Diptera, Flies) are Black Soldier Fly (about 10%), Yellow-Shouldered Hover Fly (about 10%) and Chrysosoma leucopogon (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Teleopsis sykesii is recorded against all the insects logged in Mumbai (9 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.
