Chilasa clytia
In 3 days ~40% in a week ~60%
Papilio clytia, the common mime, is a swallowtail butterfly found in south and southeast Asia. The butterfly belongs to the subgenus Chilasa, the black-bodied swallowtails. It serves as an excellent example of a Batesian mimic among the Indian butterflies.
Both males and females have the upperside velvety black or soft dark brown. Forewing: a subterminal series of outwardly truncate or emarginate white spots; the spot in interspace 4 shifted inwards out of line; those in interspaces 6, 7 and 8 oblique to the costa, the lowest and the upper two spots elongate; this is followed by a terminal series of smaller white spots, two in interspace 1, one above the outer, and two in interspaces 8; lastly, a single spot between the subterminal and terminal series.
Hindwing: a discal series of inwardly conical and outwardly emarginate, triangular, elongate white spots; a prominent tornal yellow spot broadly divided across the middle by a bar of the ground colour. The cilia touched with white in the interspaces; sometimes one or more of these specks on the cilia are broad and prominent and yellow in colour.
Underside: from soft pale brown to rich dark velvety brown... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kaeng Krachan National Park | 🇹🇭 Thailand |
More parks will be added in future updates.
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tamluk | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 2 | Kozhikode | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 3 | Thiruvananthapuram | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 4 | Kolkata | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 5 | Kochi | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 6 | Xiuying District | 🇨🇳 China | |
| 7 | Jabalpur | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 8 | Tuen Mun | 🇨🇳 China | |
| 9 | Dhaka | 🇧🇩 Bangladesh | |
| 10 | Guwahati | 🇮🇳 India |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Common Mime Swallowtail sighting in Colombo [Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte] on a given day, based on 21 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 58th most-seen of the 182 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 40%, and over a week to about 60%, if each day is a fresh chance.
March–May and July–August
In those months about 20% of wildlife watchers report a Common Mime Swallowtail in Colombo [Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte] on a given day, against under 5% in November to February, the lowest months.
Between 8 and 11 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Common Mime Swallowtail sightings with a recorded time, and nearly all of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
14th of 23
Of the 23 cities where we can rate Common Mime Swallowtail sightings, Colombo [Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte] ranks 14th at about 10%. The best odds are in Tamluk (India, about 40%), Kozhikode (India, about 20%) and Thiruvananthapuram (India, about 20%).
Same family: Papilionidae
The closest relatives of the Common Mime Swallowtail that you can see in Colombo [Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte] (family Papilionidae, Swallowtails and Parnassians) are Common Mormon Swallowtail (about 20%), Tailed Jay (about 10%) and Lime Swallowtail (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Common Mime Swallowtail is recorded against all the insects logged in Colombo [Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte] (21 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.
