Hypanartia bella
In 3 days ~40% in a week ~70%
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Iguaçu National Park | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 2 | Iguazú National Park | 🇦🇷 Argentina |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Montevideo | 🇺🇾 Uruguay | |
| 2 | Porto Alegre | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 3 | Buenos Aires | 🇦🇷 Argentina | |
| 4 | Curitiba | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 5 | Cordoba | 🇦🇷 Argentina | |
| 6 | São Paulo | 🇧🇷 Brazil |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Bella Mapwing sighting in Buenos Aires on a given day, based on 387 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 20th most-seen of the 558 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.
March–May and December–January
In those months about 20% of wildlife watchers report a Bella Mapwing in Buenos Aires on a given day, against about 10% in February and June–November, the lowest months.
Between 11 am and 2 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Bella Mapwing sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
3rd of 6
Of the 6 cities where we can rate Bella Mapwing sightings, Buenos Aires ranks 3rd at about 10%. The best odds are in Montevideo (Uruguay, about 20%) and Porto Alegre (Brazil, about 20%).
Same family: Nymphalidae
The closest relatives of the Bella Mapwing that you can see in Buenos Aires (family Nymphalidae, Brush-footed Butterflies) are Gulf Fritillary (about 40%), Southern Monarch (about 30%) and Junonia lavinia (about 30%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Bella Mapwing is recorded against all the insects logged in Buenos Aires (387 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.
