Paragomphus sabicus
In 3 days ~30% in a week ~50%
Paragomphus sabicus, the Sabi hooktail, is a species of dragonfly in the family Gomphidae. It is found in Botswana, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, subtropical or tropical moist shrubland, and rivers. The name comes from the Sabi Valley in modern Zimbabwe where the holotype specimens were collected in the late 1940s.
Paragomphus sabicus is similar in appearance to the rock hooktail (Paragomphus cognatus), but with a bright yellow face, and rust-colored markings on abdominal segments 8-9, orange markings on 10, and black folliations on females that are larger and marked with rust-colored lines on males. 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 Flapper Hooktail sighting in Kruger National Park on a given day, based on 282 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 64th most-seen of the 748 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.
January and February
In those months about 20% of wildlife watchers report a Flapper Hooktail in Kruger National Park on a given day, against under 5% in June to November, the lowest months. Those are among Kruger National Park's wettest months, with about 100 mm of rain a month against almost none in August.
Between 9 am and noon
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Flapper Hooktail sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 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 Flapper Hooktail sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same genus: Paragomphus
The closest relatives of the Flapper Hooktail that you can see in Kruger National Park (genus Paragomphus, Hooktails) are Common Hooktail (about 10%), Great Hooktail (about 10%) and Corkscrew Hooktail (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Flapper Hooktail is recorded against all the insects logged in Kruger National Park (282 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.
