Platerodrilus svetae
In 3 days ~90% in a week >90%
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kinabalu Park | 🇲🇾 Malaysia |
More parks will be added in future updates.
Likely
About 60% of wildlife watchers report a Platerodrilus svetae sighting in Kinabalu Park on a given day, based on 192 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the most-seen of the 297 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 90%, and over a week to over 90%, if each day is a fresh chance.
June and October
In those months about 70% of wildlife watchers report a Platerodrilus svetae in Kinabalu Park on a given day, against about 40% in January and April, the lowest months.
Between 10 am and 1 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Platerodrilus svetae sightings with a recorded time, and about 7 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Kinabalu Park, in our data
Kinabalu Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Platerodrilus svetae sightings: about 60% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same order: Coleoptera
The closest relatives of the Platerodrilus svetae that you can see in Kinabalu Park (order Coleoptera, Beetles) are Moellenkampi Beetle (about 40%), Odontolabis leuthneri (about 20%) and Giant Yellow Stag Beetle (about 20%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Platerodrilus svetae is recorded against all the insects logged in Kinabalu Park (192 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.
