Polites otho
In 3 days ~30% in a week ~50%
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Big Cypress National Preserve | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 2 | Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 3 | Everglades National Park | 🇺🇸 United States |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Miami | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 2 | Austin | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 3 | Houston | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 4 | Washington | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 5 | San Antonio | 🇺🇸 United States |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Southern Broken-Dash sighting in Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge on a given day, based on 24 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 62nd most-seen of the 189 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.
March and September
In those months about 20% of wildlife watchers report a Southern Broken-Dash in Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge on a given day, against under 5% in May–June, August and November–January, the lowest months.
Between 9 am and noon
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Southern Broken-Dash sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
2nd of 3
Of the 3 parks where we can rate Southern Broken-Dash sightings, Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge ranks 2nd at about 10%. The best odds are in Big Cypress National Preserve (United States, about 20%).
Same genus: Polites
The closest relatives of the Southern Broken-Dash that you can see in Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge (genus Polites) are Whirlabout (about 10%) and Tawny-Edged Skipper (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Southern Broken-Dash is recorded against all the insects logged in Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge (24 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.
