Xylophanes ceratomioides
In 3 days ~20% in a week ~50%
Xylophanes ceratomioides is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is known from Mexico, Belize, Costa Rica, French Guiana, Bolivia, Argentina and Venezuela, down into southern Brazil. Rare vagrants have been found up to southern Arizona. Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chirripó National Park | 🇨🇷 Costa Rica | |
| 2 | Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve | 🇨🇷 Costa Rica | |
| 3 | Manu National Park | 🇵🇪 Peru | |
| 4 | Tapantí-Macizo de la Muerte National Park | 🇨🇷 Costa Rica | |
| 5 | La Amistad International Park (Panama) | 🇵🇦 Panama | |
| 6 | Braulio Carrillo National Park | 🇨🇷 Costa Rica | |
| 7 | Arenal Volcano National Park | 🇨🇷 Costa Rica |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | San José | 🇨🇷 Costa Rica |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Brown And Yellow Sphinx sighting in Tapantí-Macizo de la Muerte National Park on a given day, based on 16 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 32nd most-seen of the 187 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 20%, and over a week to about 50%, if each day is a fresh chance.
February
In that month about 20% of wildlife watchers report a Brown And Yellow Sphinx in Tapantí-Macizo de la Muerte National Park on a given day, against under 5% in January and April–November, the lowest months. That is one of Tapantí-Macizo de la Muerte National Park's driest months, with about 160 mm of rain against 570 mm in October.
Between 7 and 10 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Brown And Yellow Sphinx sightings with a recorded time, and about 8 in 10 of them come between 6 pm and 6 am: it is mostly seen at night.
Among the best
Of the 7 parks where we can rate Brown And Yellow Sphinx sightings, Tapantí-Macizo de la Muerte National Park ranks 4th at about 10%, level with the leaders once rounded. The best odds are in Chirripó National Park (Costa Rica, about 10%), Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve (Costa Rica, about 10%) and Manu National Park (Peru, about 10%).
Same genus: Xylophanes
The closest relatives of the Brown And Yellow Sphinx that you can see in Tapantí-Macizo de la Muerte National Park (genus Xylophanes) are Xylophanes belti (about 10%), Xylophanes zurcheri (about 10%) and Xylophanes titana (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Brown And Yellow Sphinx is recorded against all the insects logged in Tapantí-Macizo de la Muerte National Park (16 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.
