Austrodectes monticolus
In 3 days ~50% in a week ~80%
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kosciuszko National Park | 🇦🇺 Australia |
More parks will be added in future updates.
Possible
About 20% of wildlife watchers report an Australian Shield-Back sighting in Kosciuszko National Park on a given day, based on 27 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 25th most-seen of the 105 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.
April
In that month about 40% of wildlife watchers report an Australian Shield-Back in Kosciuszko National Park on a given day, against under 5% in May to December, the lowest months.
Between 10 am and 1 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Australian Shield-Back sightings with a recorded time, and nearly all of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Kosciuszko National Park, in our data
Kosciuszko National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Australian Shield-Back sightings: about 20% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same family: Tettigoniidae
The closest relatives of the Australian Shield-Back that you can see in Kosciuszko National Park (family Tettigoniidae, Katydids) are Mountain Katydid (about 50%) and Chlorodectes montanus (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Australian Shield-Back is recorded against all the insects logged in Kosciuszko National Park (27 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.
