Desertaria lepida
In 3 days ~50% in a week ~80%
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park | 🇦🇺 Australia |
More parks will be added in future updates.
Possible
About 20% of wildlife watchers report an Ungee-Gungee sighting in Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park on a given day, based on 9 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 15th most-seen of the 38 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.
April and November
In those months about 40% of wildlife watchers report an Ungee-Gungee in Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park on a given day, against under 5% in February, May–September and December, the lowest months.
Between 8 and 11 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Ungee-Gungee sightings with a recorded time, and about 8 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park, in our data
Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Ungee-Gungee sightings: about 20% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same family: Acrididae
The closest relatives of the Ungee-Gungee that you can see in Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park (family Acrididae, Short-horned Grasshoppers) are Common Toadhopper (about 40%), Bark-Mimicking Grasshopper (about 30%) and Common Pig-Head (about 20%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Ungee-Gungee is recorded against all the insects logged in Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park (9 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.
