Paragomphus magnus
In 3 days ~20% in a week ~40%
Paragomphus magnus, the great hooktail, is a species of dragonfly in the family Gomphidae. 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 Great 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 96th 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 and February
In those months about 20% of wildlife watchers report a Great Hooktail in Kruger National Park on a given day, against under 5% in April 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 1 and 4 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Great Hooktail sightings with a recorded time, and about 7 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is seen both by day and at night.
Only Kruger National Park, in our data
Kruger National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Great Hooktail sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same genus: Paragomphus
The closest relatives of the Great Hooktail that you can see in Kruger National Park (genus Paragomphus, Hooktails) are Common Hooktail (about 10%), Flapper 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 Great 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.
