Amblypodia anita
In 3 days ~30% in a week ~50%
Amblypodia anita, the purple leaf blue or leaf blue, is a lycaenid or blue butterfly found in South Asia and Southeast Asia, including Sri Lanka, India, Myanmar, Malaysia, and Java. The species was first described by William Chapman Hewitson in 1862. Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cat Tien National Park | 🇻🇳 Vietnam |
More parks will be added in future updates.
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Purple Leaf Blue sighting in Cat Tien National Park on a given day, based on 6 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.
April and December–January
In those months about 20% of wildlife watchers report a Purple Leaf Blue in Cat Tien National Park on a given day, against under 5% in February–March, May and July–November, the lowest months. Those are among Cat Tien National Park's driest months, with about 55 mm of rain a month against 490 mm in July.
Between 7 and 10 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Purple Leaf Blue sightings with a recorded time, and about 8 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Cat Tien National Park, in our data
Cat Tien National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Purple Leaf Blue sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same family: Lycaenidae
The closest relatives of the Purple Leaf Blue that you can see in Cat Tien National Park (family Lycaenidae, Gossamer-winged Butterflies) are Common Imperial (about 20%), Common Pierrot (about 20%) and Plains Cupid (about 20%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Purple Leaf Blue is recorded against all the insects logged in Cat Tien National Park (6 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.
