Paragomphus elpidius
In 3 days ~20% in a week ~40%
Paragomphus elpidius, the corkscrew hooktail, is a species of dragonfly in the family Gomphidae. It is found in Botswana, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and possibly Burundi. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, dry savanna, moist savanna, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, subtropical or tropical moist shrubland, rivers, freshwater lakes, intermittent freshwater lakes, freshwater marshes, and intermittent freshwater marshes. Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kruger National Park | 🇿🇦 South Africa |
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With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Corkscrew Hooktail sighting in Kruger National Park on a given day, based on 98 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 111th most-seen of the 748 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 20%, and over a week to about 40%, if each day is a fresh chance.
January
In that month about 20% of wildlife watchers report a Corkscrew Hooktail in Kruger National Park on a given day, against under 5% in March–April and June–November, the lowest months. That is one of Kruger National Park's wettest months, with about 95 mm of rain against almost none in August.
Between 9 am and noon
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Corkscrew Hooktail sightings with a recorded time, and nearly all of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Kruger National Park, in our data
Kruger National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Corkscrew Hooktail sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same genus: Paragomphus
The closest relatives of the Corkscrew Hooktail that you can see in Kruger National Park (genus Paragomphus, Hooktails) are Common Hooktail (about 10%), Flapper Hooktail (about 10%) and Great Hooktail (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Corkscrew Hooktail is recorded against all the insects logged in Kruger National Park (98 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.
