Callopistria juventina
In 3 days ~20% in a week ~40%
Callopistria juventina, the Latin name, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species is found across the Palearctic realm. Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cévennes National Park | 🇫🇷 France | |
| 2 | Bavarian Forest National Park | 🇩🇪 Germany | |
| 3 | Pyrénées National Park | 🇫🇷 France |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Porto | 🇵🇹 Portugal |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a The Latin sighting in Porto on a given day, based on 34 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 180th most-seen of the 498 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 20%, and over a week to about 40%, if each day is a fresh chance.
May to September
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report a The Latin in Porto on a given day, against under 5% in October to April, the lowest months. Those are among Porto's driest months, with about 35 mm of rain a month against 140 mm in January.
Between midnight and 3 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most The Latin 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.
Only Porto, in our data
Porto is the only city on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate The Latin sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same family: Noctuidae
The closest relatives of the The Latin that you can see in Porto (family Noctuidae, Cutworm Moths and Allies) are Variegated Cutworm Moth (about 20%), Armyworm Moth (about 20%) and Scarce Merveille Du Jour (about 20%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the The Latin is recorded against all the insects logged in Porto (34 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.
