Temnora pylas
In 3 days ~10% in a week ~30%
Temnora pylas is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is known from South Africa and Zimbabwe. The forewing upperside ground colour is pale brown, with darker brown transverse bands and other markings. The basal band is dark brown and the subbasal band consists of two dark brown lines separated by the ground colour. The antemedian band is dark brown but with some ground colour medially. It is evenly curved from the costa to the inner margin. The postmedian band is dark brown. The forewing underside is uniformly orange-brown. The hindwing upperside is basally yellow, the postmedian band is orange and the marginal band is pale brown, the borders between these are very diffuse. The orange postmedian band is twice the width of the brown marginal band. The outer margin has a dark shade. The hindwing underside is uniformly orange-brown. The inner edge is yellowish near the base. Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Garden Route National Park | 🇿🇦 South Africa |
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Rare
Under 5% of wildlife watchers report a Barred Yellow-Wing Temnora sighting in Garden Route National Park on a given day, based on 6 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 236th most-seen of the 298 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 10%, and over a week to about 30%, if each day is a fresh chance.
October and November
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Barred Yellow-Wing Temnora in Garden Route National Park on a given day, against under 5% in December to September, the lowest months.
Between 9 am and noon
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Barred Yellow-Wing Temnora sightings with a recorded time, and about 7 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is most active around dawn and dusk.
Only Garden Route National Park, in our data
Garden Route National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Barred Yellow-Wing Temnora sightings: under 5% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same family: Sphingidae
The closest relatives of the Barred Yellow-Wing Temnora that you can see in Garden Route National Park (family Sphingidae, Sphinx Moths) are African Hummingbird Hawkmoth (about 10%), Common Striped Hawkmoth (about 10%) and Cape Hawkmoth (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Barred Yellow-Wing Temnora is recorded against all the insects logged in Garden Route 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.
