Badamia exclamationis
In 3 days ~10% in a week ~30%
Badamia exclamationis, commonly known as the brown awl or narrow-winged awl, is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae. It is found in south and southeast Asia, Australia, and Oceania. The brown awl is found in Sri Lanka, India, Myanmar, Cambodia, South Yunnan, Australia and Japan. This butterfly is found throughout the Indian subcontinent and in the Andaman Islands. The type locality is South India.
As per William Harry Evans (1932), the butterfly is common in India and rare in the Andaman Islands. A forest butterfly, the brown awl favours openings and edges of deciduous and evergreen forests while its caterpillars are to be found in moist deciduous and semi-evergreen forests. It flies about either late or early in the morning in the shade of the jungles. It can be sometimes seen in bright sunlight visiting flowers, such as Glycosmis, Buddleia, Chromolaena and Lantana, but is very wary and energetic at such times... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taroko National Park | 🇹🇼 Taiwan | |
| 2 | Kaeng Krachan National Park | 🇹🇭 Thailand |
Rare
Under 5% of wildlife watchers report a Brown Awl sighting in Chennai on a given day, based on 7 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 284th most-seen of the 376 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 10%, and over a week to about 30%, if each day is a fresh chance.
July and October
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Brown Awl in Chennai on a given day, against under 5% in August–September and November–June, the lowest months. Those are among Chennai's wettest months, with about 190 mm of rain a month against 5 mm in February.
Between 9 am and noon
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Brown Awl sightings with a recorded time, and nearly all of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
4th of 9
Of the 9 cities where we can rate Brown Awl sightings, Chennai ranks 4th at under 5%. The best odds are in Mumbai (India, about 10%), Pune (India, about 10%) and Singapore (Singapore, under 5%).
Same family: Hesperiidae
The closest relatives of the Brown Awl that you can see in Chennai (family Hesperiidae, Skippers) are Parnara naso (about 30%), Common Banded Awl (about 20%) and Grass Demon (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Brown Awl is recorded against all the insects logged in Chennai (7 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.
