Pseudonympha magoides
In 3 days ~20% in a week ~30%
Pseudonympha magoides, the false silver-bottom brown, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is found in South Africa, from the Western Cape to the Eastern Cape, along the Drakensberg foothills into Lesotho, KwaZulu-Natal, Eswatini, Mpumalanga, north to the Wolkberg. It is also found in Free State and Gauteng.
The wingspan is 46–48 mm for males and 44–46 mm for females. Adults are on wing from September to May (with peaks depending on the location). There are two overlapping generations per year. The larvae feed on Poaceae grasses, including Ehrharta erecta. Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Addo Elephant National Park | 🇿🇦 South Africa |
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With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a False Silver-Bottom Brown sighting in Addo Elephant National Park on a given day, based on 8 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 114th most-seen of the 198 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 20%, and over a week to about 30%, if each day is a fresh chance.
April–May and August–October
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report a False Silver-Bottom Brown in Addo Elephant National Park on a given day, against under 5% in June–July and November–March, the lowest months.
Between 5 and 8 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most False Silver-Bottom Brown sightings with a recorded time, and about 6 in 10 of them come between 6 pm and 6 am: it is most active around dawn and dusk.
Only Addo Elephant National Park, in our data
Addo Elephant National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate False Silver-Bottom Brown sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same family: Nymphalidae
The closest relatives of the False Silver-Bottom Brown that you can see in Addo Elephant National Park (family Nymphalidae, Brush-footed Butterflies) are Yellow Pansy (about 20%), Painted Lady (about 20%) and Junonia archesia (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the False Silver-Bottom Brown is recorded against all the insects logged in Addo Elephant National Park (8 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.
