[Gynoplistia troglophila] (https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/390107) Near high tide mark on the local beach. Possibly have found another (Not inat) obs from the 90s?
Have a couple other Gynoplistia in a similar situation, with potentially less data/research.
Rarely observed? Just go for something small.
One of the World’s most common insects with about 3 million annual incidences just in the U.S. is Pthirus pubis. Yet, it has only 25 observations worldwide on iNaturalist
the one with most observations for me is an leaf katydid (idk what species tho) with
283891 observations
least is dendrelaphis andamanensis or andaman bronzebanck with 32 observations
There are a further 11 where mine is one of two observations for the species – ten insects and one marine snail – then some where the ratio is 2 of 3 total observations, 4 of 6 total observations, 8 of 9 total observations, 7 of 10 total observations, etc.
The species I’ve observed with the most observations on iNaturalist is Anas platyrhynchos, aka 청둥오리 or Mallard.
I have an observation for Rhytisma vitis (a fungal tar spot) and an observation for Ptychoptera abbreviata (a Phantom Crane Fly) for which there are only 4 (identified) observations on iNat. My observation of Polemius canadensis (a Soldier Beetle) is one of 9. That number drops to 6 if I filter for the US.
Am I missing how to find the most observations on iNat for species I also have an observation for? I have 143 obs of Mallards and it makes sense that would be the highest. But I don’t see that stat using the link given for ‘leastobserved’.
I was fully expecting my least to be the Fisk’s House Snake, which caused lots of excitement on facebook when I reported it at the time. It was actually found by my (now) wife. It is one of just 6 observations on iNaturalist. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/152717595
Despite lighttrapping in some very undersurveyed areas my rarest with 8 observations remains a tiny dermestid called Dermestes nidum that I got lightrapping in my heavily urban back alley
The least observed one is this one https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/102802-Hipparchia-tilosi
An endemic butterfly of an island. When I found it a lot of researchers from places like the curators of butterflies of Spain for the red list wrote to me to ask for details. Nobody knows its population or conservation status, Im really proud of this one
Haven’t had the time to read through or reply lately but it’s still so cool to read all of these!
A few posters mentioned having to travel to see the mallard, and I did too, so of course I had to see what the most observed animal in my country was. I think I could take a guess… which was unfortunately proven right: (feral) rock doves at 258, 716 observations. Didn’t have time to sort through everything but it seems the native species with the most observations is the Eurasian tree sparrow or common myna. Would also like to apologise for adding to the mallard mayhem because to me they were cool exotic birds I hadn’t seen before, haha.
This is fascinating. My least observed species has 9 observations here on iNat but 115 on GBIF. Meanwhile, this weevil, another one of my low observation species, has 12 research grade observations on iNat, and correspondingly 12 on GBIF! Seems like every observation of this species has come from iNat.
This is apparently the only instance of this heather on iNat. For animals, I used to have the only Nicuesa speciosa, but now there are five. On the max side, I have the first 15 species on the list; somehow I don’t have yarrow yet.
I’ve got the first 16 species on the most-observed list; stymied by the Common Eastern Bumble Bee. And at least 23 iNat “Onlies”, though I think I’ve missed a few.
I took the picture more than 30 years ago, and it ist still the only observation for this species on iNat and seems to be the first known photograph of this species in the wild.
As I run several observation time series Zoropsis spinimana ist the species I viewed the most (as of today with 293 observations).
My rarest ones that got to species level and research level:
1st place: Alpaida Scriba that has 52 total observations and I made 1 (maybe 2, but the second one didn’t get to species level though I’m pretty sure it’s the same species)
2nd place: Diabroticatravassosi that has 66 total observations and 2 of those are mine
3rd place: Deloyala cruciata that has 110 total observations, and I’m 1 of 5 observations of my very big city!
On the least rare ones:
1st place: Apis mellifera, common honey bee with 492430 observations, invasive here but widely used to produce honey
2nd place: Harmoniaaxyridis that I just stopped taking photos and posting after I learned to ID without help, also invasive here but commercially available as biological pest control. It has 358031 total observations
3rd place: Nycticoraxnycticorax with 114314 observations. I’m not normally a bird watcher, so I barely ever notice them
