Mellitidia tomentifera
In 3 days ~50% in a week ~80%
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Daintree National Park | 🇦🇺 Australia |
More parks will be added in future updates.
Possible
About 20% of wildlife watchers report an Australian Mellitidia sighting in Daintree National Park on a given day, based on 41 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 62nd most-seen of the 856 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 50%, and over a week to about 80%, if each day is a fresh chance.
July and October
In those months about 30% of wildlife watchers report an Australian Mellitidia in Daintree National Park on a given day, against under 5% in February–March and June, the lowest months. Those are among Daintree National Park's driest months, with about 55 mm of rain a month against 380 mm in January.
Between 8 and 11 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Australian Mellitidia sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Daintree National Park, in our data
Daintree National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Australian Mellitidia sightings: about 20% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same order: Hymenoptera
The closest relatives of the Australian Mellitidia that you can see in Daintree National Park (order Hymenoptera, Ants, Bees, Wasps, and Sawflies) are Asian Weaver Ant (about 50%), Polyrhachis foreli (about 20%) and Leptomyrmex unicolor (about 20%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Australian Mellitidia is recorded against all the insects logged in Daintree National Park (41 verified sightings from 2019 to 2026), 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.
