Octotoma scabripennis
In 3 days ~20% in a week ~40%
Octotoma scabripennis, known as the lantana leafminer and lantana leaf beetle, is a species of beetle in the family Chrysomelidae, originally from Central America (where it has been recorded from El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico and Nicaragua) and introduced into Australia, the Cook Islands, Fiji, Ghana, Guam, Hawaii, India, New Caledonia, the Solomon Islands and South Africa to kill the invasive Lantana camara plant. Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Royal National Park | 🇦🇺 Australia |
More parks will be added in future updates.
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Lantana Leaf Beetle sighting in Royal National Park on a given day, based on 11 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 147th most-seen of the 175 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.
May
In that month about 20% of wildlife watchers report a Lantana Leaf Beetle in Royal National Park on a given day, against under 5% in March–April, June–August and October–January, the lowest months.
Between 3 and 6 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Lantana Leaf Beetle sightings with a recorded time, and nearly all of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Royal National Park, in our data
Royal National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Lantana Leaf Beetle sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Lantana Leaf Beetle is recorded against all the insects logged in Royal 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.
