Trithemis furva
In 3 days ~20% in a week ~50%
Trithemis furva, the Navy dropwing, is a species of dragonfly in the family Libellulidae. It is found in Angola, Cameroon, Chad, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and possibly Burundi. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, dry savanna, moist savanna, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, subtropical or tropical moist shrubland, rivers, freshwater marshes, and intermittent freshwater marshes. Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Garden Route National Park | 🇿🇦 South Africa |
More parks will be added in future updates.
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Durban | 🇿🇦 South Africa |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Navy Dropwing sighting in Garden Route National Park on a given day, based on 41 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 71st 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 50%, if each day is a fresh chance.
November
In that month about 20% of wildlife watchers report a Navy Dropwing in Garden Route National Park on a given day, against under 5% in June to October, the lowest months.
Between 10 am and 1 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Navy Dropwing 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 Garden Route National Park, in our data
Garden Route National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Navy Dropwing sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same genus: Trithemis
The closest relatives of the Navy Dropwing that you can see in Garden Route National Park (genus Trithemis, Dropwings) are Red-Veined Dropwing (about 20%), Jaunty Dropwing (about 20%) and Violet Dropwing (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Navy Dropwing is recorded against all the insects logged in Garden Route National Park (41 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.
