Mecodema alternans
In 3 days ~20% in a week ~50%
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rakiura National Park | 🇳🇿 New Zealand |
More parks will be added in future updates.
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Mecodema alternans sighting in Rakiura National Park on a given day, based on 6 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 103rd most-seen of the 118 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 20%, and over a week to about 50%, if each day is a fresh chance.
March and May
In those months about 20% of wildlife watchers report a Mecodema alternans in Rakiura National Park on a given day, against under 5% in February, April, June–October and December, the lowest months.
Between 9 am and noon
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Mecodema alternans sightings with a recorded time, and nearly all of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Rakiura National Park, in our data
Rakiura National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Mecodema alternans sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same order: Coleoptera
The closest relatives of the Mecodema alternans that you can see in Rakiura National Park (order Coleoptera, Beetles) are Helms's Stag Beetle (about 30%), Huhu (about 20%) and Eucalyptus Tortoise Beetle (about 20%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Mecodema alternans is recorded against all the insects logged in Rakiura National Park (6 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.
