Mythimna l-album
In 3 days ~10% in a week ~20%
Mythimna l-album, the L-album wainscot, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1767 12th edition of Systema Naturae. It is distributed throughout Europe, but is also found in North Africa from Morocco to Tunisia and in the Levant, then east across the Palearctic to Central Asia. It is not found in the far north of the Arabian Peninsula. The limit in the north varies. It occurs on the northern edge of the range as a migrant. From southern England, then Denmark and southern Scandinavia, the north limit cuts across the Baltic Sea across the Baltic states then south of Moscow to the Urals. Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sierra Nevada National Park | 🇪🇸 Spain | |
| 2 | Cévennes National Park | 🇫🇷 France | |
| 3 | Sierra de Guadarrama National Park | 🇪🇸 Spain | |
| 4 | Bavarian Forest National Park | 🇩🇪 Germany |
Rare
Under 5% of wildlife watchers report a L-Album Wainscot sighting in Porto on a given day, based on 8 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 377th most-seen of the 498 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 10%, and over a week to about 20%, if each day is a fresh chance.
June and July
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report a L-Album Wainscot in Porto on a given day, against under 5% in August to May, the lowest months. Those are among Porto's driest months, with about 25 mm of rain a month against 140 mm in January.
Between 10 pm and 1 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most L-Album Wainscot sightings with a recorded time, and about 7 in 10 of them come between 6 pm and 6 am: it is mostly seen at night.
7th of 12
Of the 12 cities where we can rate L-Album Wainscot sightings, Porto ranks 7th at under 5%. The best odds are in Kharkiv (Ukraine, about 10%), London (United Kingdom, about 10%) and Budapest (Hungary, about 10%).
Same genus: Mythimna
The closest relatives of the L-Album Wainscot that you can see in Porto (genus Mythimna) are Armyworm Moth (about 20%), The Delicate (about 10%) and Mythimna riparia (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the L-Album Wainscot is recorded against all the insects logged in Porto (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.
