Lestes dorothea
In 3 days ~30% in a week ~50%
Lestes dorothea, the forest spreadwing, is a damselfly species in the family Lestidae. It is distributed from south and northeast India to Thailand and Malaysia. It is a large damselfly with the male have an abdomen length 36 to 40 mm compared to the similar looking species, Lestes praemorsus having an abdomen length 32–35 mm. Its head is black and matured males have deep sapphire-blue eyes as in L. praemorsus. Its thorax is black, pruinosed white laterally, citron-yellow beneath. The dorsum of the thorax is marked with a pair of metallic green antehumeral stripes shaped like those seen in L. praemorsus. The mark on each side is followed by a diffuse black stripe on the humeral suture, a large diffuse black spot just in front of the upper part of the postero-lateral suture, another smaller spot at the middle of the antero-lateral suture, and a third spot over the spiracle. L. praemorsus lacks this black stripe; have only several irregular spots present on both sides. The thorax of matured males are heavily pruinosed, obscuring all these markings. Wings are hyaline and pterostigma is black. Abdomen is blue or greenish-blue marked with black. Segment 8 is... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Khao Yai National Park | 🇹🇭 Thailand |
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With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Forest Spreadwing sighting in Khao Yai National Park on a given day, based on 7 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 115th most-seen of the 221 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 30%, and over a week to about 50%, if each day is a fresh chance.
May
In that month about 30% of wildlife watchers report a Forest Spreadwing in Khao Yai National Park on a given day, against under 5% in June, August and November–March, the lowest months.
Between 9 am and noon
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Forest Spreadwing sightings with a recorded time, and nearly all of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Khao Yai National Park, in our data
Khao Yai National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Forest Spreadwing sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same family: Lestidae
The closest relatives of the Forest Spreadwing that you can see in Khao Yai National Park (family Lestidae, Spreadwings and allies) are Orolestes octomaculatus (about 10%) and Indolestes anomalus (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Forest Spreadwing is recorded against all the insects logged in Khao Yai 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.
