Melanitis leda
In 3 days ~40% in a week ~70%
Melanitis leda, the common evening brown, is a common species of butterfly found flying at dusk. The flight of this species is erratic. They are found in Africa, South Asia and South-east Asia extending to parts of Australia.
Wet-season form: Forewing: apex subacute; termen slightly angulated just below apex, or straight. Upperside brown. Forewing with two large subapical black spots, each with a smaller spot outwardly of pure white inwardly bordered by a ferruginous interrupted lunule; costal margin narrowly pale. Hindwing with a dark, white-centred, fulvous-ringed ocellus subterminally in interspace two, and the apical ocellus, sometimes also others of the ocelli, on the underside, showing through.
Underside paler, densely covered with transverse dark brown striae; a discal curved dark brown narrow band on forewing; a post-discal similar oblique band, followed by a series of ocelli: four on the forewing, that in interspace 8 the largest; six on the hindwing, the apical and subtornal the largest.
Dry-season form: Forewing: apex obtuse and more or less falcate; termen posterior to falcation straight or sinuous. Upperside: ground colour similar to that in the wet-season... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kanha National Park | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 2 | Cuc Phuong National Park | 🇻🇳 Vietnam | |
| 3 | Namdapha National Park | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 4 | Bandhavgarh National Park | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 5 | Daintree National Park | 🇦🇺 Australia | |
| 6 | Lamington National Park | 🇦🇺 Australia | |
| 7 | iSimangaliso Wetland Park | 🇿🇦 South Africa | |
| 8 | Noosa National Park | 🇦🇺 Australia | |
| 9 | Chitwan National Park | 🇳🇵 Nepal | |
| 10 | Minneriya National Park | 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka | |
| 11 | Litchfield National Park | 🇦🇺 Australia | |
| 12 | Springbrook National Park | 🇦🇺 Australia | |
| 13 | Khao Yai National Park | 🇹🇭 Thailand | |
| 14 | Kruger National Park | 🇿🇦 South Africa | |
| 15 | Doi Inthanon National Park | 🇹🇭 Thailand | |
| 16 | Kaeng Krachan National Park | 🇹🇭 Thailand |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ranchi | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 2 | Guwahati | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 3 | Dhaka | 🇧🇩 Bangladesh | |
| 4 | Kalyan-Dombivli | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 5 | Jabalpur | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 6 | Berhampore | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 7 | Visakhapatnam | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 8 | Jamshedpur | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 9 | Raipur | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 10 | Hyderabad | 🇮🇳 India |
Possible
About 20% of wildlife watchers report a Common Evening Brown sighting in Chitwan National Park on a given day, based on 7 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 18th most-seen of the 24 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 40%, and over a week to about 70%, if each day is a fresh chance.
November
In that month about 40% of wildlife watchers report a Common Evening Brown in Chitwan National Park on a given day, against under 5% in May–July, September–October and December–February, the lowest months. That is one of Chitwan National Park's driest months, with almost no rain against 660 mm in July.
Between 9 am and noon
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Common Evening Brown sightings with a recorded time, and about 7 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
9th of 16
Of the 16 parks where we can rate Common Evening Brown sightings, Chitwan National Park ranks 9th at about 20%. The best odds are in Kanha National Park (India, about 40%), Cuc Phuong National Park (Vietnam, about 40%) and Namdapha National Park (India, about 30%). All parks ranked.
Same family: Nymphalidae
The closest relatives of the Common Evening Brown that you can see in Chitwan National Park (family Nymphalidae, Brush-footed Butterflies) are Grey Pansy (about 30%), Great Eggfly (about 30%) and Peacock Pansy (about 30%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Common Evening Brown is recorded against all the insects logged in Chitwan 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.
