Aspisoma ignitum
In 3 days ~30% in a week ~60%
Aspisoma ignitum is a species of firefly in the family Lampyridae. It is found in the Caribbean, Central America, North America, and South America. Its presence is uncertain in the United States. Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Main Ridge Forest Reserve | 🇹🇹 Trinidad and Tobago |
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With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Dixon's Striped Firefly sighting in Main Ridge Forest Reserve on a given day, based on 5 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 296th most-seen of the 346 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 30%, and over a week to about 60%, if each day is a fresh chance.
November and December
In those months about 30% of wildlife watchers report a Dixon's Striped Firefly in Main Ridge Forest Reserve on a given day, against under 5% in January–May and July–October, the lowest months.
Between 7 and 10 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Dixon's Striped Firefly sightings with a recorded time, and about 6 in 10 of them come between 6 pm and 6 am: it is most active around dawn and dusk.
Only Main Ridge Forest Reserve, in our data
Main Ridge Forest Reserve is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Dixon's Striped Firefly sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same order: Coleoptera
The closest relatives of the Dixon's Striped Firefly that you can see in Main Ridge Forest Reserve (order Coleoptera, Beetles) are Taeniotes scalatus (about 30%), Onychocerus crassus (about 10%) and Cyclocephala amazona (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Dixon's Striped Firefly is recorded against all the insects logged in Main Ridge Forest Reserve (5 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.
