Papilio jacksoni
In 3 days ~50% in a week ~80%
Papilio jacksoni, the Jackson's swallowtail, is a butterfly of the family Papilionidae. It is found in Africa. The female adults mimic Amauris echeria and relatives. The larvae feed on Clausena, Toddalia and Clausena anisata.
"Male as in ssp. echerioides, but black more sooty, median band narrower, reduced to very well separated spots in forewing, white with faint ochreous tinge. Female as in echerioides, but white apical spot does not touch the margin; white spots in hindwing in both sexes well inside margin." (Robert Herbert Carcasson, 1960).
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| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bwindi Impenetrable National Park | 🇺🇬 Uganda |
More parks will be added in future updates.
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nairobi | 🇰🇪 Kenya |
Possible
About 20% of wildlife watchers report a Jackson’s Swallowtail sighting in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park on a given day, based on 11 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 11th 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 July
In those months about 40% of wildlife watchers report a Jackson’s Swallowtail in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park on a given day, against under 5% in February, May–June and August–December, the lowest months.
Between 10 am and 1 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Jackson’s Swallowtail 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 Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, in our data
Bwindi Impenetrable National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Jackson’s Swallowtail sightings: about 20% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same genus: Papilio
The closest relatives of the Jackson’s Swallowtail that you can see in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park (genus Papilio, Common Swallowtails) are Apple-Green Swallowtail (about 30%), MacKinnon’s Swallowtail (about 30%) and Hesper’s Bush Kite Swallowtail (about 20%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Jackson’s Swallowtail is recorded against all the insects logged in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park (11 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.
