Syllepte polydonta
In 3 days ~30% in a week ~50%
Syllepte polydonta is a moth in the family Crambidae. It is found in Indonesia (Ambon Island), Papua New Guinea, where it has been recorded from the D'Entrecasteaux Islands (Fergusson Island) and Australia, where it has been recorded from Queensland.
The wingspan is about 32 mm. Adults are straw-yellow, the forewings with fuscous marks at the base. The antemedial line is strongly bent outwards on the median nervure, then angled inwards in the submedian interspace and outwards on vein 1. There is a prominent black discoidal lunule. The postmedial line is strongly dentate, slightly bent outwards between veins 5 and 3, then retracted to below the angle of the cell and bent outwards again. The hindwings have a prominent black discoidal lunule and a strongly dentate postmedial line, slightly bent outwards between veins 5 and 3, then retracted to below the angle of the cell. Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Daintree National Park | 🇦🇺 Australia |
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With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Syllepte polydonta sighting in Daintree National Park on a given day, based on 16 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 254th most-seen of the 856 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 30%, and over a week to about 50%, if each day is a fresh chance.
January and May
In those months about 20% of wildlife watchers report a Syllepte polydonta in Daintree National Park on a given day, against under 5% in February–April, June and December, the lowest months. Those are among Daintree National Park's wettest months, with about 240 mm of rain a month against 50 mm in September.
Between 7 and 10 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Syllepte polydonta sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 pm and 6 am: it is mostly seen at night.
Only Daintree National Park, in our data
Daintree National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Syllepte polydonta sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same genus: Syllepte
The closest relatives of the Syllepte polydonta that you can see in Daintree National Park (genus Syllepte) are Syllepte ridopalis (about 10%) and Syllepte subaenescens (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Syllepte polydonta is recorded against all the insects logged in Daintree National Park (16 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.
