Polistes rothneyi
In 3 days ~50% in a week ~80%
Polistes rothneyi is a species of paper wasp from China, Korea, Japan, and Taiwan. It is named after the collector George Alexander James Rothney. Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taroko National Park | 🇹🇼 Taiwan |
More parks will be added in future updates.
Possible
About 20% of wildlife watchers report a Rothney's Paper Wasp sighting in Taroko National Park on a given day, based on 34 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 59th most-seen of the 447 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 50%, and over a week to about 80%, if each day is a fresh chance.
June
In that month about 40% of wildlife watchers report a Rothney's Paper Wasp in Taroko National Park on a given day, against under 5% in September–October and December–March, the lowest months.
Between 7 and 10 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Rothney's Paper Wasp sightings with a recorded time, and nearly all of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Taroko National Park, in our data
Taroko National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Rothney's Paper Wasp sightings: about 20% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same genus: Polistes
The closest relatives of the Rothney's Paper Wasp that you can see in Taroko National Park (genus Polistes, Umbrella Paper Wasps) are Giant Brown Paper Wasp (about 20%), Polistes takasagonus (about 10%) and Polistes tenebricosus (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Rothney's Paper Wasp is recorded against all the insects logged in Taroko National Park (34 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.
