Scaraphites hirtipes
In 3 days ~20% in a week ~40%
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Great Otway National Park | 🇦🇺 Australia |
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With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Scaraphites hirtipes sighting in Great Otway National Park on a given day, based on 14 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 146th most-seen of the 418 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 20%, and over a week to about 40%, if each day is a fresh chance.
April–May and October–February
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Scaraphites hirtipes in Great Otway National Park on a given day, against under 5% in March and June–September, the lowest months.
Between 10 am and 1 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Scaraphites hirtipes sightings with a recorded time, and nearly all of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Great Otway National Park, in our data
Great Otway National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Scaraphites hirtipes sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same order: Coleoptera
The closest relatives of the Scaraphites hirtipes that you can see in Great Otway National Park (order Coleoptera, Beetles) are Variegated Lady Beetle (about 20%), Large Spotted Ladybird (about 10%) and Small Transverse Ladybird Beetle (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Scaraphites hirtipes is recorded against all the insects logged in Great Otway 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.
