Aspidimorpha puncticosta
In 3 days ~20% in a week ~50%
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | iSimangaliso Wetland 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 Dune Tortoise Beetle sighting in iSimangaliso Wetland Park on a given day, based on 22 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 116th 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.
February, April–July, September–October and December
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Dune Tortoise Beetle in iSimangaliso Wetland Park on a given day, against under 5% in January, March, August and November, the lowest months.
Between 8 and 11 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Dune Tortoise Beetle sightings with a recorded time, and nearly all 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 Dune Tortoise Beetle sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same family: Chrysomelidae
The closest relatives of the Dune Tortoise Beetle that you can see in iSimangaliso Wetland Park (family Chrysomelidae, Leaf Beetles) are Green Tortoise Beetle (about 10%) and Aethiopocassis vigintimaculata (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Dune Tortoise Beetle is recorded against all the insects logged in iSimangaliso Wetland Park (22 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.
