Paragomphus lineatus
In 3 days ~50% in a week ~80%
Paragomphus lineatus, the lined hooktail, is a species of dragonfly in the family Gomphidae. It is a widespread species; recorded from India to Turkey. It is a black and yellow dragonfly with bluish grey eyes. Its thorax is yellow, marked with blackish-brown stripes. There is a black dorsal line bordering the mesothoraoic collar on either side of the mid-dorsal carina and an oblique antehumeral line to join this line in its upper part, thus enclosing a thin stripe of the yellow colour. There is a line on the humeral suture and two lateral lines close together on the postero-lateral suture. Abdomen is black marked with yellow basal rings. Segment 1 has the sides broadly yellow and a large dorsal apical spot. Segment 2 has a sub-dorsal black line on each side enclosing a dorsal yellow spot. Segments 3 to 7 have broad black apical rings. There is a lateral black line runs from the apical ring on each
side and extends to the yellow base. Segments 8 and 9 have wide dilatations at their sides. They are black on the dorsum except for a fine basal rings. Segment 10 is yellow, with black on the basal half of the dorsum. Anal appendages are yellow and hood-shaped... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kanha National Park | 🇮🇳 India |
More parks will be added in future updates.
Possible
About 20% of wildlife watchers report a Lined Hooktail 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 58th most-seen of the 106 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 50%, and over a week to about 80%, if each day is a fresh chance.
January–February and April
In those months about 30% of wildlife watchers report a Lined Hooktail in Kanha National Park on a given day, against under 5% in March and May–November, the lowest months. Those are among Kanha National Park's driest months, with about 20 mm of rain a month against 430 mm in July.
Between 10 am and 1 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Lined Hooktail 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 Kanha National Park, in our data
Kanha National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Lined Hooktail sightings: about 20% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same order: Odonata
The closest relatives of the Lined Hooktail 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 Lined Hooktail 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.
