Elymnias hypermnestra
In 3 days ~30% in a week ~50%
Elymnias hypermnestra, the common palmfly, is a species of satyrine butterfly found in South and Southeast Asia. As in some other species in the genus Elymnias, the common palmfly has a precostal cell in the hindwings and a tuft of androconial scales on the dorsal discal cell of the hindwings. Some populations of this butterfly species are sexually dimorphic: males and females do not look alike. In sexually dimorphic populations, males have black upperside forewings with small blue patches and mimic Euploea species, while the females mimic butterfly species of the genus Danaus.
Race undularis (Subhimalayas and Southeast Asia) male upperside blackish brown. Forewing with a subterminal series of blue or sometimes slightly green elongate spots, curving strongly inwards and getting more elongate opposite the apex, forming almost an oblique bar up to the costa. Hindwing: the terminal margin broadly bright chestnut, sometimes with a subterminal paler spot in two or more of the interspaces. Underside pale brown, the basal two-thirds of both forewing and hindwing densely, the outer third more sparsely covered with dark ferruginous, somewhat broad, transverse striae. Forewing... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taroko National Park | 🇹🇼 Taiwan | |
| 2 | Sundarbans National Park | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 3 | Kanha National Park | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 4 | Sinharaja Forest Reserve | 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka | |
| 5 | Khao Yai National Park | 🇹🇭 Thailand | |
| 6 | Doi Inthanon National Park | 🇹🇭 Thailand | |
| 7 | Khao Sok National Park | 🇹🇭 Thailand | |
| 8 | Cat Tien National Park | 🇻🇳 Vietnam | |
| 9 | Kaeng Krachan National Park | 🇹🇭 Thailand |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hanoi | 🇻🇳 Vietnam | |
| 2 | Xiuying District | 🇨🇳 China | |
| 3 | Jabalpur | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 4 | Guwahati | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 5 | Bhubaneshwar | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 6 | Mumbai | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 7 | Dhaka | 🇧🇩 Bangladesh | |
| 8 | Colombo [Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte] | 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka | |
| 9 | Jamshedpur | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 10 | Kalyan-Dombivli | 🇮🇳 India |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Common Palmfly sighting in Cat Tien National Park on a given day, based on 5 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 108th most-seen of the 125 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 30%, and over a week to about 50%, if each day is a fresh chance.
December
In that month about 30% of wildlife watchers report a Common Palmfly in Cat Tien National Park on a given day, against under 5% in January–February and June–November, the lowest months. That is one of Cat Tien National Park's driest months, with about 55 mm of rain against 490 mm in July.
Between 8 and 11 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Common Palmfly sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
8th of 9
Of the 9 parks where we can rate Common Palmfly sightings, Cat Tien National Park ranks 8th at about 10%. The best odds are in Taroko National Park (Taiwan, about 30%), Sundarbans National Park (India, about 30%) and Kanha National Park (India, about 30%).
Same family: Nymphalidae
The closest relatives of the Common Palmfly that you can see in Cat Tien National Park (family Nymphalidae, Brush-footed Butterflies) are Yellow Pansy (about 40%), Clipper (about 30%) and Grey Pansy (about 30%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Common Palmfly is recorded against all the insects logged in Cat Tien National Park (5 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.
