Melanargia larissa
In 3 days ~20% in a week ~40%
Melanargia larissa, the Balkan marbled white, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found from south-eastern Europe (Croatia, Serbia, Albania, Bulgaria, Greece) and Asia Minor to Transcaucasia and north-western Iran. The habitat consists of dry grasslands, scrubby hillsides and grassy woodland glades. Adults are on wing from mid-May to July in one generation per year.
The wingspan is about 52 mm. The nymotypical form larissa Hbn. (38f) is easily recognized by the strongly sooty blackening of the bases of the wings, only the cell having some light places left. The forms allied to larissa can be separated from the japygia- forms only withdifficulty and some arbitrariness. The transverse cell-bar of the forewing is not so close to the centre of the cell, being apparently a little shifted towards the apex of the same, and the median band of the hindwing has a somewhat different position, but also varies rather considerably. The countries inhabited by the forms of larissa are more or less grouped around the Black Sea, while the distribution area of the japygia -forms encircles that of larissa in a wide arch.
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| 1 | Athens | 🇬🇷 Greece |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Balkan Marbled White sighting in Athens on a given day, based on 9 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 106th most-seen of the 242 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 20%, and over a week to about 40%, if each day is a fresh chance.
May
In that month about 20% of wildlife watchers report a Balkan Marbled White in Athens on a given day, against under 5% in August to April, the lowest months. That is one of Athens's driest months, with about 20 mm of rain against 85 mm in December.
Only Athens, in our data
Athens is the only city on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Balkan Marbled White sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same family: Nymphalidae
The closest relatives of the Balkan Marbled White that you can see in Athens (family Nymphalidae, Brush-footed Butterflies) are Red Admiral (about 40%), Painted Lady (about 30%) and Wall Brown (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Balkan Marbled White is recorded against all the insects logged in Athens (9 verified sightings), 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.
