Oxytettix arius
In 3 days ~60% in a week ~90%
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ranomafana National Park | 🇲🇬 Madagascar |
More parks will be added in future updates.
Possible
About 30% of wildlife watchers report an Oxytettix arius sighting in Ranomafana National Park on a given day, based on 19 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 19th most-seen of the 68 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 60%, and over a week to about 90%, if each day is a fresh chance.
February
In that month about 60% of wildlife watchers report an Oxytettix arius in Ranomafana National Park on a given day, against under 5% in May to October, the lowest months. That is one of Ranomafana National Park's wettest months, with about 430 mm of rain against 80 mm in September.
Between 10 am and 1 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Oxytettix arius 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 Ranomafana National Park, in our data
Ranomafana National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Oxytettix arius sightings: about 30% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same order: Orthoptera
The closest relatives of the Oxytettix arius that you can see in Ranomafana National Park (order Orthoptera, Grasshoppers, Crickets, and Katydids) are Tricolor Grasshopper (about 30%), Catantopsis sacalava (about 20%) and Migratory Locust (about 20%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Oxytettix arius is recorded against all the insects logged in Ranomafana National Park (19 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.
