Discotettix kirscheyi
In 3 days ~40% in a week ~70%
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Danum Valley Conservation Area | 🇲🇾 Malaysia |
More parks will be added in future updates.
Possible
About 20% of wildlife watchers report a Kirschey's Spiky Pygmy Devil sighting in Danum Valley Conservation Area on a given day, based on 7 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 55th most-seen of the 102 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 40%, and over a week to about 70%, if each day is a fresh chance.
January
In that month about 40% of wildlife watchers report a Kirschey's Spiky Pygmy Devil in Danum Valley Conservation Area on a given day, against under 5% in February–March, May, July, September and November–December, the lowest months.
Between 8 and 11 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Kirschey's Spiky Pygmy Devil 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 Danum Valley Conservation Area, in our data
Danum Valley Conservation Area is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Kirschey's Spiky Pygmy Devil sightings: about 20% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same order: Orthoptera
The closest relatives of the Kirschey's Spiky Pygmy Devil that you can see in Danum Valley Conservation Area (order Orthoptera, Grasshoppers, Crickets, and Katydids) are Short-Winged Rice Grasshopper (about 20%), Nisitrus vittatus (about 20%) and Traulia bimaculata (about 20%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Kirschey's Spiky Pygmy Devil is recorded against all the insects logged in Danum Valley Conservation Area (7 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.
