Disparoneura quadrimaculata
In 3 days ~40% in a week ~70%
Disparoneura quadrimaculata, black-winged bambootail is a damselfly species in the family Platycnemididae. It is a widely distributed species in India. It is a medium sized damselfly with brick-red eyes, with two horizontal dark-red equatorial lines. Its thorax is bright brick-red on dorsum, paler on the sides. There is black and narrow mid-dorsal carina; a ante-humeral stripe; and a more or less broken but broad humeral-stripe. There is another broader irregular stripe on the mesepimeron, often broken up into two or more spots. There is a short stripe on the antero-lateral suture and a narrow stripe on the postero-lateral suture. The base of the lateral side is pale yellowish-red.
Its wings are transparent; but the fore-wings have a broad blackish-brown fascia, which extends from the node to the pterostigma. The hind-wings have a similar fascia which begins about 5 cells distal to the node and extends to the pterostigma. The pterostigma is bright ochreous, framed in thick black nervures.
Its abdomen is reddish-brown, marked with black. Segment a and segments 7 to 9 are black. Segments 2 to 6 are reddish-brown with broadly black on the apical ends. Segment... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kanha National Park | 🇮🇳 India |
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With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Black-Winged Bambootail sighting in Kanha National Park on a given day, based on 7 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 81st most-seen of the 106 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 40%, and over a week to about 70%, if each day is a fresh chance.
April
In that month about 40% of wildlife watchers report a Black-Winged Bambootail in Kanha National Park on a given day, against under 5% in March and May–January, the lowest months. That is one of Kanha National Park's driest months, with about 20 mm of rain against 430 mm in July.
Between 11 am and 2 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Black-Winged Bambootail sightings with a recorded time, and nearly all of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Kanha National Park, in our data
Kanha National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Black-Winged Bambootail sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same order: Odonata
The closest relatives of the Black-Winged Bambootail that you can see in Kanha National Park (order Odonata, Dragonflies and Damselflies) are Russet Percher (about 30%), Chalky Percher (about 30%) and Crimson Marsh Glider (about 30%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Black-Winged Bambootail is recorded against all the insects logged in Kanha National Park (7 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.
