Acanthoproctus diadematus
In 3 days ~30% in a week ~50%
Acanthoproctus diadematus (Namibia katydid or Nara cricket) is an armoured katydid, bush-cricket, or ground cricket endemic to the Namib Desert of southern Africa, where it lives in the tall sand dunes along the Kuiseb River in Namib-Naukluft National Park. The katydid feeds on the !nara melon endemic to the area. Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Namib-Naukluft National Park | 🇳🇦 Namibia |
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With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a !Nara Cricket sighting in Namib-Naukluft National Park on a given day, based on 11 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 29th most-seen of the 60 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.
February and March
In those months about 20% of wildlife watchers report a !Nara Cricket in Namib-Naukluft National Park on a given day, against under 5% in June, August–September and November–December, the lowest months.
Between 9 am and noon
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most !Nara Cricket 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 Namib-Naukluft National Park, in our data
Namib-Naukluft National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate !Nara Cricket sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same family: Tettigoniidae
The closest relatives of the !Nara Cricket that you can see in Namib-Naukluft National Park (family Tettigoniidae, Katydids) are Longleg Armoured Corncricket (about 10%) and Brown Armoured Corncricket (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the !Nara Cricket is recorded against all the insects logged in Namib-Naukluft National Park (11 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.
