Acraga coa
In 3 days ~10% in a week ~30%
Acraga coa is a moth of the family Dalceridae. It is found in southern Mexico, Belize, Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, Costa Rica and Panama. The habitat consists of tropical wet, tropical moist, tropical premontane wet, tropical premontane rain, tropical lower montane moist, subtropical wet, subtropical moist, subtropical dry and warm temperate wet forests.
The length of the forewings is 12–18 mm (0.47–0.71 in) for males and 19–25 mm (0.75–0.98 in) for females. Adults are on wing year-round. The larvae feed on the leaves of Terminalia, Coffea and Citrus species. Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tapantí-Macizo de la Muerte National Park | 🇨🇷 Costa Rica | |
| 2 | Cumbres de Monterrey National Park | 🇲🇽 Mexico |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | San José | 🇨🇷 Costa Rica |
Rare
Under 5% of wildlife watchers report a Coa Jewel Caterpillar Moth sighting in San José on a given day, based on 7 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 189th most-seen of the 239 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.
March and August–December
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Coa Jewel Caterpillar Moth in San José on a given day, against under 5% in January–February and April–July, the lowest months.
Between 6 and 9 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Coa Jewel Caterpillar Moth sightings with a recorded time, and about 8 in 10 of them come between 6 pm and 6 am: it is mostly seen at night.
Only San José, in our data
San José is the only city on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Coa Jewel Caterpillar Moth sightings: under 5% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same order: Lepidoptera
The closest relatives of the Coa Jewel Caterpillar Moth that you can see in San José (order Lepidoptera, Butterflies and Moths) are Monarch (about 30%), Banded Peacock (about 30%) and Rusty-Tipped Page (about 30%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Coa Jewel Caterpillar Moth is recorded against all the insects logged in San José (7 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.
