Platacantha lutea
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.
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Platacantha lutea sighting in iSimangaliso Wetland Park on a given day, based on 17 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
In that month about 20% of wildlife watchers report a Platacantha lutea in iSimangaliso Wetland Park on a given day, against under 5% in July and September–December, the lowest months. That is one of iSimangaliso Wetland Park's wettest months, with about 130 mm of rain against 30 mm in July.
Between 7 and 10 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Platacantha lutea 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 iSimangaliso Wetland Park, in our data
iSimangaliso Wetland Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Platacantha lutea sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same order: Hemiptera
The closest relatives of the Platacantha lutea that you can see in iSimangaliso Wetland Park (order Hemiptera, True Bugs, Hoppers, Aphids, and allies) are Zooty Red Spittlebug (about 10%), Coastal Sharpcollar Cicada (about 10%) and Tettigoniella cosmopolita (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Platacantha lutea is recorded against all the insects logged in iSimangaliso Wetland Park (17 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.
