Colotis phisadia
In 3 days ~50% in a week ~80%
Colotis phisadia, the blue-spotted Arab, is a small butterfly of the family Pieridae, that is, the yellows and whites, which is found in Mauritania, Senegal, Mali, Nigeria, Niger, Chad, Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, Kuwait, Uganda, Arabia, the Near East and India.
Upperside of male forewing has a pale salmon-pink ground colour, this colour paler outwardly; base heavily irrorated (sprinkled) with bluish-grey scales that extend outwards and are merged with a black patch that occupies the apex of the cell and spreads along the discocellulars; terminal third of wing black with enclosed spots of the ground colour in interspaces 3, 4, 5 and 9, the spot in 4 sometimes absent, the inner edge of the black area emarginate at interspaces 2 and 4; the outer margin with a series of minute terminal specks of ground colour in the interspaces. Hindwing: white, base heavily irrorated with bluish-grey scales that are extended downwards in a diffuse band parallel to the dorsum; terminal half of wing jet black. Underside: precisely like the underside of C. protractus male. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen as in C. protractus.
Female is very variable, but resembles the male in markings. On... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Keoladeo National Park | 🇮🇳 India |
More parks will be added in future updates.
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kuwait City | 🇰🇼 Kuwait | |
| 2 | Abu Dhabi | 🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates | |
| 3 | Dubai | 🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates | |
| 4 | Ahmedabad | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 5 | New Delhi | 🇮🇳 India |
Possible
About 20% of wildlife watchers report a Blue-Spotted Arab sighting in Dubai on a given day, based on 36 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 5th most-seen of the 54 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 50%, and over a week to about 80%, if each day is a fresh chance.
January
In that month about 30% of wildlife watchers report a Blue-Spotted Arab in Dubai on a given day, against under 5% in May–June and August, the lowest months.
Between 9 am and noon
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Blue-Spotted Arab 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 5
Of the 5 cities where we can rate Blue-Spotted Arab sightings, Dubai ranks 3rd at about 20%. The best odds are in Kuwait City (Kuwait, about 40%) and Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates, about 40%).
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Blue-Spotted Arab is recorded against all the insects logged in Dubai (36 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.
