Junonia sinuata
In 3 days ~50% in a week ~80%
Precis sinuata, the wide-banded commodore, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, São Tomé and Príncipe, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia and Mozambique. The habitat consists of forests and woodland.
The larvae feed on Platostoma species. Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bwindi Impenetrable National Park | 🇺🇬 Uganda |
More parks will be added in future updates.
Possible
About 20% of wildlife watchers report a Junonia sinuata sighting in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park on a given day, based on 14 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 8th 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.
May and July
In those months about 40% of wildlife watchers report a Junonia sinuata in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park on a given day, against under 5% in February 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 Junonia sinuata sightings with a recorded time, and nearly all 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 Junonia sinuata sightings: about 20% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same genus: Junonia
The closest relatives of the Junonia sinuata that you can see in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park (genus Junonia, Buckeyes & Pansies) are Aurivillius’ Brown Pansy (about 40%) and Little Pansy (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Junonia sinuata is recorded against all the insects logged in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park (14 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.
