Copris fidius
In 3 days ~20% in a week ~30%
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Garden Route National Park | 🇿🇦 South Africa |
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With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Copris fidius sighting in Garden Route National Park on a given day, based on 14 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 125th most-seen of the 298 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 20%, and over a week to about 30%, if each day is a fresh chance.
February–March, May, July and October–December
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Copris fidius in Garden Route National Park on a given day, against under 5% in January, April, June and August–September, the lowest months.
Between 8 and 11 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Copris fidius sightings with a recorded time, and about 6 in 10 of them come between 6 pm and 6 am: it is seen both by day and at night.
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 Copris fidius sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same family: Scarabaeidae
The closest relatives of the Copris fidius that you can see in Garden Route National Park (family Scarabaeidae, Scarabs) are Zigzag Fruit Chafer (about 10%), White-Spotted Fruit Chafer (about 10%) and Orange Small Fruit Chafer (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Copris fidius is recorded against all the insects logged in Garden Route National Park (14 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.
