Moma alpium
In 3 days ~40% in a week ~70%
Moma alpium, the scarce merveille du jour, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in the Palearctic realm. Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nikko National Park | 🇯🇵 Japan | |
| 2 | Bavarian Forest National Park | 🇩🇪 Germany | |
| 3 | Pyrénées National Park | 🇫🇷 France | |
| 4 | Cévennes National Park | 🇫🇷 France |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Porto | 🇵🇹 Portugal |
Possible
About 20% of wildlife watchers report a Scarce Merveille Du Jour sighting in Porto on a given day, based on 260 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 12th most-seen of the 498 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 40%, and over a week to about 70%, if each day is a fresh chance.
August
In that month about 40% of wildlife watchers report a Scarce Merveille Du Jour in Porto on a given day, against under 5% in January–March and November, the lowest months. That is one of Porto's driest months, with about 20 mm of rain against 140 mm in January.
Between 10 pm and 1 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Scarce Merveille Du Jour sightings with a recorded time, and about half of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is seen both by day and at night.
Only Porto, in our data
Porto is the only city on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Scarce Merveille Du Jour sightings: about 20% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same family: Noctuidae
The closest relatives of the Scarce Merveille Du Jour that you can see in Porto (family Noctuidae, Cutworm Moths and Allies) are Variegated Cutworm Moth (about 20%), Armyworm Moth (about 20%) and Porter's Rustic (about 20%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Scarce Merveille Du Jour is recorded against all the insects logged in Porto (260 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.
