Brachythemis impartita
In 3 days ~50% in a week ~80%
Brachythemis impartita, the Northern banded groundling, is a species of dragonfly, a skimmer from the family Libellulidae from central and northern Africa, its range extending into southern Europe and the Middle East. It was previously considered to be conspecific with B. leucosticta.
Brachythemis impartita has a pale cream pterostigma in both sexes and their eyes appear to be striped. The female has a buffy abdomen and thorax, males are darker and mature males can be dark blue to black on the abdomen and thorax. Males have bands on the outer wings from the node to just short of the pterostigma, this is paler in teneral individuals but darkens as the dragonfly matures. Where they overlap with B. leucosticta the males can be distinguished by the colour of the veins and the genital lobe, as well as by the ventral structure of segment 8. The females cannot yet be told apart. The length of this dragonfly is from 25 to 34 millimetres (0.98 to 1.34 in) and the span of the hindwings is 20 to 26 millimetres (0.79 to 1.02 in).
Brachythemis impartita is found from central Africa as far south as the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Tanzania north through... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Monfragüe National Park | 🇪🇸 Spain |
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Possible
About 20% of wildlife watchers report a Northern Banded Groundling sighting in Monfragüe National Park on a given day, based on 29 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 11th most-seen of the 84 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 50%, and over a week to about 80%, if each day is a fresh chance.
July
In that month about 40% of wildlife watchers report a Northern Banded Groundling in Monfragüe National Park on a given day, against under 5% in November to March, the lowest months. That is one of Monfragüe National Park's driest months, with almost no rain against 100 mm in October.
Between 9 am and noon
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Northern Banded Groundling 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 Monfragüe National Park, in our data
Monfragüe National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Northern Banded Groundling sightings: about 20% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same family: Libellulidae
The closest relatives of the Northern Banded Groundling that you can see in Monfragüe National Park (family Libellulidae, Skimmers) are Broad Scarlet (about 20%), Violet Dropwing (about 20%) and Long Skimmer (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Northern Banded Groundling is recorded against all the insects logged in Monfragüe National Park (29 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.
