Hetaerina caja
In 3 days ~20% in a week ~30%
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Soberanía National Park | 🇵🇦 Panama |
More parks will be added in future updates.
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a River Rubyspot sighting in Soberanía National Park on a given day, based on 7 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 157th most-seen of the 253 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 20%, and over a week to about 30%, if each day is a fresh chance.
January, March and August–November
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report a River Rubyspot in Soberanía National Park on a given day, against under 5% in February, April–July and December, the lowest months.
Between 10 am and 1 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most River Rubyspot 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 Soberanía National Park, in our data
Soberanía National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate River Rubyspot sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same genus: Hetaerina
The closest relatives of the River Rubyspot that you can see in Soberanía National Park (genus Hetaerina, Rubyspots) are Red-Striped Rubyspot (about 10%), Dot-Winged Rubyspot (about 10%) and Racket-Tipped Rubyspot (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the River Rubyspot is recorded against all the insects logged in Soberanía National Park (7 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.
