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Pimelia costata
In 3 days ~50% in a week ~80%
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Doñana National Park | 🇪🇸 Spain |
More parks will be added in future updates.
Possible
About 20% of wildlife watchers report a Pimelia costata sighting in Doñana National Park on a given day, based on 22 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 11th most-seen of the 87 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.
August
In that month about 40% of wildlife watchers report a Pimelia costata in Doñana National Park on a given day, against under 5% in September and December–January, the lowest months. That is one of Doñana National Park's driest months, with almost no rain against 90 mm in October.
Between 9 am and noon
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Pimelia costata sightings with a recorded time, and about 8 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Doñana National Park, in our data
Doñana National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Pimelia costata sightings: about 20% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same family: Tenebrionidae
The closest relatives of the Pimelia costata that you can see in Doñana National Park (family Tenebrionidae, Darkling Beetles) are Akis granulifera (about 10%) and Heliotaurus ruficollis (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Pimelia costata is recorded against all the insects logged in Doñana National Park (22 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.
