Popillia bipunctata
In 3 days ~20% in a week ~50%
Popillia bipunctata, the yellow shining leaf chafer, is a species of scarab beetle. Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | iSimangaliso Wetland Park | 🇿🇦 South Africa |
More parks will be added in future updates.
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Bumspot Chafer sighting in iSimangaliso Wetland Park on a given day, based on 19 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 107th most-seen of the 316 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.
April
In that month about 20% of wildlife watchers report a Bumspot Chafer in iSimangaliso Wetland Park on a given day, against under 5% in July–September and December, the lowest months.
Between 11 am and 2 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Bumspot Chafer 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 iSimangaliso Wetland Park, in our data
iSimangaliso Wetland Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Bumspot Chafer sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same family: Scarabaeidae
The closest relatives of the Bumspot Chafer that you can see in iSimangaliso Wetland Park (family Scarabaeidae, Scarabs) are Popeye Dung Beetle (about 30%), Kheper lamarcki (about 10%) and Diurnal Copper Dung Beetle (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Bumspot Chafer is recorded against all the insects logged in iSimangaliso Wetland Park (19 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.
