Tagiades insularis
In 3 days ~70% in a week >90%
Tagiades insularis is a butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It is found on Madagascar and the Comoro Islands. The habitat consists of forests, forest margins and anthropogenic environments. Tagiades insularis insularis (Madagascar) Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ankarafantsika National Park | 🇲🇬 Madagascar |
More parks will be added in future updates.
Likely
About 40% of wildlife watchers report a Mascarene Clouded Flat sighting in Ankarafantsika National Park on a given day, based on 8 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 12th most-seen of the 31 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 70%, and over a week to over 90%, if each day is a fresh chance.
April
In that month about 70% of wildlife watchers report a Mascarene Clouded Flat in Ankarafantsika National Park on a given day, against under 5% in October, the lowest month. That is one of Ankarafantsika National Park's driest months, with about 55 mm of rain against 560 mm in January. February and March have too few records to rate.
Between 9 am and noon
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Mascarene Clouded Flat sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Ankarafantsika National Park, in our data
Ankarafantsika National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Mascarene Clouded Flat sightings: about 40% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same order: Lepidoptera
The closest relatives of the Mascarene Clouded Flat that you can see in Ankarafantsika National Park (order Lepidoptera, Butterflies and Moths) are Madagascar Forest Nymph (about 50%), Colotis evanthe (about 50%) and Citrus Swallowtail (about 40%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Mascarene Clouded Flat is recorded against all the insects logged in Ankarafantsika 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.
