Pseudagrion australasiae
In 3 days ~20% in a week ~30%
Pseudagrion australasiae is a species of damselfly in the family Coenagrionidae. It is found in India, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore and Thailand. It is a common damselfly, but usually under-recorded due to its similarity with other blue and black colored Pseudagrion species. Laidlaw described Pseudagrion bengalense as a new species, based on the comparison of his type in the Indian Museum with the mislabeled specimen of P. microcephalum as P. australasiae in British Museum. Lieftinck clarified the situation and placed P. bengalense as a synonym of P. australasiae.
It is a medium sized damselfly with blue eyes, dark on top. The back of the head is pale blue, bordered with black. Its thorax is azure blue with broad black dorsal and humeral stripes. Abdominal segments 1 and 2 are blue with black marks on the dorsum. A mark on segment 2 looks like a vase, broadly expanded at the middle. Segments 3 to 7 are black on the dorsum and blue on the sides. There are narrow blue apical annules on each segment. Segments 8 and 9 are blue with narrow black apical fringe. Segment 10 has an X-shaped, broad black mark on the dorsum and is blue on the sides... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Khao Sok National Park | 🇹🇭 Thailand | |
| 2 | Khao Yai National Park | 🇹🇭 Thailand | |
| 3 | Kaeng Krachan National Park | 🇹🇭 Thailand |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Singapore | 🇸🇬 Singapore |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Look-Alike Sprite sighting in Singapore on a given day, based on 99 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 259th most-seen of the 1045 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 20%, and over a week to about 30%, if each day is a fresh chance.
November to July
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Look-Alike Sprite in Singapore on a given day, against under 5% in August to October, the lowest months.
Between 8 and 11 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Look-Alike Sprite sightings with a recorded time, and nearly all of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Singapore, in our data
Singapore is the only city on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Look-Alike Sprite sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Look-Alike Sprite is recorded against all the insects logged in Singapore (99 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.
