Scymnodes lividigaster
In 3 days ~20% in a week ~40%
Apolinus lividigaster, the yellow-shouldered ladybird, is a small ladybird beetle found in Australia and New Guinea, and introduced to New Zealand, New Caledonia, the Cook Islands, French Polynesia, Samoa and Hawaii. Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Springbrook National Park | 🇦🇺 Australia |
More parks will be added in future updates.
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Yellow-Shouldered Ladybird sighting in Springbrook National Park on a given day, based on 11 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 228th most-seen of the 429 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.
July
In that month about 20% of wildlife watchers report a Yellow-Shouldered Ladybird in Springbrook National Park on a given day, against under 5% in March, May–June, August–September and December–January, the lowest months. That is one of Springbrook National Park's driest months, with about 50 mm of rain against 210 mm in February.
Between 11 am and 2 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Yellow-Shouldered Ladybird sightings with a recorded time, and nearly all of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Springbrook National Park, in our data
Springbrook National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Yellow-Shouldered Ladybird sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same family: Coccinellidae
The closest relatives of the Yellow-Shouldered Ladybird that you can see in Springbrook National Park (family Coccinellidae, Lady Beetles) are Variable Ladybird Beetle (about 10%), Fungus-Eating Ladybird (about 10%) and Henosepilachna vigintisexpunctata (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Yellow-Shouldered Ladybird is recorded against all the insects logged in Springbrook 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.
