Heliothea discoidaria
In 3 days ~30% in a week ~60%
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sierra de Guadarrama National Park | 🇪🇸 Spain |
More parks will be added in future updates.
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Heliothea discoidaria sighting in Sierra de Guadarrama National Park on a given day, based on 137 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 48th most-seen of the 597 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 30%, and over a week to about 60%, if each day is a fresh chance.
June
In that month about 40% of wildlife watchers report a Heliothea discoidaria in Sierra de Guadarrama National Park on a given day, against under 5% in August to April, the lowest months.
Between 11 am and 2 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Heliothea discoidaria 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 Sierra de Guadarrama National Park, in our data
Sierra de Guadarrama National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Heliothea discoidaria sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same family: Geometridae
The closest relatives of the Heliothea discoidaria that you can see in Sierra de Guadarrama National Park (family Geometridae, Geometer Moths) are Yellow Shell Moth (about 10%), Chimney-Sweeper (about 10%) and Lythria cruentaria (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Heliothea discoidaria is recorded against all the insects logged in Sierra de Guadarrama National Park (137 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.
