Nososticta mouldsi
In 3 days ~60% in a week ~90%
Nososticta mouldsi is a species of Australian damselfly in the family Platycnemididae, commonly known as a striped threadtail. It has only been found in the Northern Territory, where it inhabits rainforest streams. Nososticta mouldsi is a small, slender damselfly; the male is black with blue markings, and the female is black with pale yellow-brown markings. As at February 2018 there were just five records of this species on the Atlas of Living Australia.
The genus name Nososticta combines the Greek νόσος (nosos, "disease") with στικτός (stiktos, "spotted" or "marked"). The suffix -sticta is commonly used in names of taxa related to Protoneura and the subfamily Isostictinae.
In 2000, Günther Theischinger named this species mouldsi, an eponym honouring Max Moulds, who collected the type specimen. List of Odonata species of Australia Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Litchfield National Park | 🇦🇺 Australia |
More parks will be added in future updates.
Possible
About 30% of wildlife watchers report a Striped Threadtail sighting in Litchfield National Park on a given day, based on 19 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 18th most-seen of the 43 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 60%, and over a week to about 90%, if each day is a fresh chance.
April
In that month about 50% of wildlife watchers report a Striped Threadtail in Litchfield National Park on a given day, against under 5% in July, October and December–January, the lowest months. That is one of Litchfield National Park's driest months, with about 50 mm of rain against 400 mm in January.
Between 9 am and noon
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Striped Threadtail sightings with a recorded time, and nearly all of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Litchfield National Park, in our data
Litchfield National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Striped Threadtail sightings: about 30% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same order: Odonata
The closest relatives of the Striped Threadtail that you can see in Litchfield National Park (order Odonata, Dragonflies and Damselflies) are Painted Grasshawk (about 70%), Pygmy Percher (about 40%) and Chalky Percher (about 40%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Striped Threadtail is recorded against all the insects logged in Litchfield National Park (19 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.
