Scintharista magnifica
In 3 days ~20% in a week ~40%
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Namib-Naukluft National Park | 🇳🇦 Namibia |
More parks will be added in future updates.
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Scintharista magnifica sighting in Namib-Naukluft National Park on a given day, based on 5 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 54th most-seen of the 60 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 20%, and over a week to about 40%, if each day is a fresh chance.
April
In that month about 20% of wildlife watchers report a Scintharista magnifica in Namib-Naukluft National Park on a given day, against under 5% in March, June and August–January, the lowest months.
Between 7 and 10 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Scintharista magnifica sightings with a recorded time, and about 8 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 Scintharista magnifica sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same family: Acrididae
The closest relatives of the Scintharista magnifica that you can see in Namib-Naukluft National Park (family Acrididae, Short-horned Grasshoppers) are Tree Locust (about 30%), Desert Locust (about 20%) and Pink Agile Grasshopper (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Scintharista magnifica is recorded against all the insects logged in Namib-Naukluft National Park (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.
