Schizillus laticeps
In 3 days ~20% in a week ~50%
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Joshua Tree National Park | 🇺🇸 United States |
More parks will be added in future updates.
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Schizillus laticeps sighting in Joshua Tree National Park on a given day, based on 18 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 77th most-seen of the 190 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.
March–May and November
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Schizillus laticeps in Joshua Tree National Park on a given day, against under 5% in June–October and December–February, the lowest months.
Between 7 and 10 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Schizillus laticeps sightings with a recorded time, and about 8 in 10 of them come between 6 pm and 6 am: it is mostly seen at night.
Only Joshua Tree National Park, in our data
Joshua Tree National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Schizillus laticeps sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same family: Tenebrionidae
The closest relatives of the Schizillus laticeps that you can see in Joshua Tree National Park (family Tenebrionidae, Darkling Beetles) are Armored Stink Beetle (about 30%), Eleodes grandicollis (about 20%) and Rough-Lipped Darkling Beetle (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Schizillus laticeps is recorded against all the insects logged in Joshua Tree National Park (18 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.
