Cigaritis lohita
In 3 days ~20% in a week ~40%
Cigaritis lohita, the long-banded silverline, is a species of lycaenid or blue butterfly. Male. Upperside blackish-brown tinted with violet-blue. Forewing sometimes with some of the bands of the underside visible through the wing, the violet-blue with some gloss in certain lights merging into the black costal and outer marginal borders. Hindwing with the blue colour more distinct and somewhat more glossy, covering the whole surface of the wing except the costal space and the abdominal fold which are broadly pale blackish-brown, outer marginal line black, a fairly large anal orange patch, a black spot in the anal lobe, a small one between the tails, each with some silvery scales; tails black, tipped with white. Cilia of both wings grey. Underside yellowish-white, bands very dark red, with more or less disconnected silvery lines inside them. Forewing with a sub-basal bar from the costa connected with a short streak from the base, another from the costa across the middle of the cell, both with some suffused blackish below them, an outwardly oblique bar from the costa across the end of the cell to the sub-median vein, with a small blackish narrow and inwardly bent short... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Namdapha National Park | 🇮🇳 India |
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With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Long-Banded Silverline sighting in Hong Kong on a given day, based on 49 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 212th most-seen of the 1125 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.
April to October
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Long-Banded Silverline in Hong Kong on a given day, against under 5% in November to March, the lowest months.
Between 9 am and noon
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Long-Banded Silverline sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Among the best
Of the 8 cities where we can rate Long-Banded Silverline sightings, Hong Kong ranks 4th at about 10%, level with the leaders once rounded. The best odds are in Xiamen City (China, about 10%), Tuen Mun (China, about 10%) and Kochi (India, about 10%).
Same family: Lycaenidae
The closest relatives of the Long-Banded Silverline that you can see in Hong Kong (family Lycaenidae, Gossamer-winged Butterflies) are Pale Grass Blue (about 20%), Plains Cupid (about 20%) and Abisara echeria (about 20%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Long-Banded Silverline is recorded against all the insects logged in Hong Kong (49 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.
