Argia agrioides
In 3 days ~20% in a week ~50%
The California dancer (Argia agrioides) is a damselfly of the family Coenagrionidae, native from Oregon south through California to Arizona, as well as adjacent parts of Mexico. Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Death Valley National Park | 🇺🇸 United States |
More parks will be added in future updates.
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | San Diego | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 2 | San Francisco | 🇺🇸 United States |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a California Dancer sighting in Death Valley National Park on a given day, based on 6 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 71st most-seen of the 108 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 20%, and over a week to about 50%, if each day is a fresh chance.
May–June and October
In those months about 20% of wildlife watchers report a California Dancer in Death Valley National Park on a given day, against under 5% in April, July–September and November–February, the lowest months.
Between 1 and 4 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most California Dancer sightings with a recorded time, and nearly all of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Death Valley National Park, in our data
Death Valley National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate California Dancer sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same genus: Argia
The closest relatives of the California Dancer that you can see in Death Valley National Park (genus Argia, Dancers) are Vivid Dancer (about 30%), Blue-Ringed Dancer (about 20%) and Kiowa Dancer (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the California Dancer is recorded against all the insects logged in Death Valley National Park (6 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.
