Euphaea splendens
In 3 days ~80% in a week >90%
Euphaea splendens, the shining gossamerwing, is a species of damselfly belonging to the Euphaeidae family. It is endemic to Sri Lanka. https://web.archive.org/web/20150219172210/http://www.wht.lk/storage/book_downloads/CorrigendaAddendum.pdf
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| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sinharaja Forest Reserve | 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka |
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Likely
About 40% of wildlife watchers report a Shining Gossamerwing sighting in Sinharaja Forest Reserve on a given day, based on 55 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 4th most-seen of the 117 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 80%, and over a week to over 90%, if each day is a fresh chance.
June and August
In those months about 60% of wildlife watchers report a Shining Gossamerwing in Sinharaja Forest Reserve on a given day, against about 20% in November and December, the lowest months.
Between 10 am and 1 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Shining Gossamerwing 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 Sinharaja Forest Reserve, in our data
Sinharaja Forest Reserve is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Shining Gossamerwing sightings: about 40% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same order: Odonata
The closest relatives of the Shining Gossamerwing that you can see in Sinharaja Forest Reserve (order Odonata, Dragonflies and Damselflies) are Pied Paddy Skimmer (about 40%), Black-Tipped Flashwing (about 40%) and Slender Blue Skimmer (about 30%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Shining Gossamerwing is recorded against all the insects logged in Sinharaja Forest Reserve (55 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.
