Palpopleura deceptor
In 3 days ~60% in a week ~90%
Palpopleura deceptor, the deceptive widow, is a species of dragonfly in the family Libellulidae. It is found in Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and possibly Burundi. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, dry savanna, moist savanna, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, subtropical or tropical moist shrubland, subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland, swamps, intermittent freshwater lakes, and intermittent freshwater marshes. Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
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| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
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| 1 | Ouagadougou | 🇧🇫 Burkina Faso |
Possible
About 30% of wildlife watchers report a Deceptive Widow sighting in Ouagadougou on a given day, based on 8 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 9th most-seen of the 28 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 60%, and over a week to about 90%, if each day is a fresh chance.
August
In that month about 50% of wildlife watchers report a Deceptive Widow in Ouagadougou on a given day, against under 5% in February–March and May–June, the lowest months. That is one of Ouagadougou's wettest months, with about 250 mm of rain against almost none in December.
Only Ouagadougou, in our data
Ouagadougou is the only city on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Deceptive Widow sightings: about 30% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same genus: Palpopleura
The closest relatives of the Deceptive Widow that you can see in Ouagadougou (genus Palpopleura, Widows) are Lucia Widow (about 40%) and Portia Widow (about 30%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Deceptive Widow is recorded against all the insects logged in Ouagadougou (8 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.
