Colotis amata
In 3 days ~20% in a week ~40%
Colotis amata, the Small Salmon Arab, is a small butterfly in the family Pieridae. It is primarily found in South Asia in countries like India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Similar populations across Arabian Peninsula, Africa and Madagascar were earlier treated as being conspecific. However, based on later studies, they have been split and now regarded as a different species Colotis calais.
The male's upperside has a salmon-pink ground colour. The costa on the forewing is black and thickly overlaid with greyish or pinkish scales; a black spot at apex of cell, which may be large and quadrate or smaller and lunate; termen broadly black, with an enclosed double transverse series of spots of the ground colour the inner series consists of a large spot in interspace 1, two very small spots in interspaces 2 and 3, one in each, and four larger anterior spots placed in a curve; the spots in the outer series are variable in number, but generally there is one in each interspace, these are more or less linear in shape. Hindwing: a band on costal margin extended to just within the upper margin of the cell, covered with dense black specialized scales; this black band joined onto a... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Berenty Reserve | 🇲🇬 Madagascar | |
| 2 | Keoladeo National Park | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 3 | Liwonde National Park | 🇲🇼 Malawi | |
| 4 | Namib-Naukluft National Park | 🇳🇦 Namibia | |
| 5 | Etosha National Park | 🇳🇦 Namibia | |
| 6 | Kruger National Park | 🇿🇦 South Africa |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Surat | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 2 | Vasai-Virar | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 3 | Karachi | 🇵🇰 Pakistan | |
| 4 | Mumbai | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 5 | Coimbatore | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 6 | Ahmedabad | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 7 | Vadodara | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 8 | Dubai | 🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates | |
| 9 | Mysuru | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 10 | Salem | 🇮🇳 India |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Small Salmon Arab sighting in Chennai on a given day, based on 18 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 152nd most-seen of the 376 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.
February, April–July and September–November
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Small Salmon Arab in Chennai on a given day, against under 5% in March, August and December–January, the lowest months.
Between 10 am and 1 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Small Salmon Arab sightings with a recorded time, and nearly all of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
11th of 13
Of the 13 cities where we can rate Small Salmon Arab sightings, Chennai ranks 11th at about 10%. The best odds are in Surat (India, about 30%), Vasai-Virar (India, about 30%) and Karachi (Pakistan, about 20%).
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Small Salmon Arab is recorded against all the insects logged in Chennai (18 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.
