Parides panares
In 3 days ~10% in a week ~30%
Parides panares, the wedge-spotted cattleheart, is a species of butterfly in the family Papilionidae native to the Americas. Male : somewhat smaller than P. vertumnus, the red area of the hindwing less triangular and its last spot smaller. Female: forewing slightly transparent at the apex; the spots somewhat yellowish, not pure white, the cell-spot usually large and extended across the cell; band of the hindwing less bright red than in P. vertumnus. Tibiae of the male not thickened. Guatemala to Ecuador, in several subspecies. — lycimenes Boisd. is the Central American form. Forewing with a large green spot, which almost always encloses at least one white spot; often a spot in... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Arenal Volcano National Park | 🇨🇷 Costa Rica |
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With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Wedge-Spotted Cattleheart sighting in Arenal Volcano National Park on a given day, based on 7 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 222nd most-seen of the 302 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 10%, and over a week to about 30%, if each day is a fresh chance.
May–August and December
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Wedge-Spotted Cattleheart in Arenal Volcano National Park on a given day, against under 5% in January–April and September–November, the lowest months.
Between 9 am and noon
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Wedge-Spotted Cattleheart sightings with a recorded time, and about 6 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is seen both by day and at night.
Only Arenal Volcano National Park, in our data
Arenal Volcano National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Wedge-Spotted Cattleheart sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same genus: Parides
The closest relatives of the Wedge-Spotted Cattleheart that you can see in Arenal Volcano National Park (genus Parides, Cattlehearts) are Iphidamas Cattleheart (about 10%), Green-Celled Cattleheart (about 10%) and True Cattleheart (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Wedge-Spotted Cattleheart is recorded against all the insects logged in Arenal Volcano National Park (7 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.
