Colotis danae
In 3 days ~30% in a week ~60%
Colotis danae, the crimson tip or scarlet tip, is a small butterfly of the family Pieridae, that is, the yellows and whites. It is found in Asia and Africa. Colouration very variable, especially in the female, from orange to red.
Upperside: white, base of wings generally irrorated (speckled), but to a varying extent, with black scales. This irroration in many specimens is entirely wanting. Forewing: with or without a minute black spot on the discocellulars; apex broadly carmine, edged internally and externally with black, this black border varies in width, but both inner and outer borders meet on the costa and on the termen, on the latter they unite and sometimes extend as a black line to the tornus. Hindwing: uniform, except for a series of black terminal spots, which in some specimens are comparatively large and connected together by an anteciliary slender black line, in others minute, more or less obsolescent, unconnected dots.
Underside: white. Forewing: base of cell washed with sulphur-yellow; spot on discocellulars as on the upperside; apical carmine area of the upperside represented by an ochraceous-pink patch, not margined with black, but similar... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Murchison Falls National Park | 🇺🇬 Uganda |
More parks will be added in future updates.
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jodhpur | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 2 | Ouagadougou | 🇧🇫 Burkina Faso | |
| 3 | Coimbatore | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 4 | Hyderabad | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 5 | Salem | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 6 | Pune | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 7 | Chennai | 🇮🇳 India |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Banded Scarlet Tip sighting in Hyderabad on a given day, based on 32 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 81st most-seen of the 318 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 30%, and over a week to about 60%, if each day is a fresh chance.
July
In that month about 30% of wildlife watchers report a Banded Scarlet Tip in Hyderabad on a given day, against under 5% in October to March, the lowest months. That is one of Hyderabad's wettest months, with about 170 mm of rain against almost none in December.
Between 8 and 11 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Banded Scarlet Tip sightings with a recorded time, and about 7 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is seen both by day and at night.
4th of 7
Of the 7 cities where we can rate Banded Scarlet Tip sightings, Hyderabad ranks 4th at about 10%. The best odds are in Jodhpur (India, about 40%), Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso, about 30%) and Coimbatore (India, about 20%).
Same genus: Colotis
The closest relatives of the Banded Scarlet Tip that you can see in Hyderabad (genus Colotis, Tips) are Plain Orange-Tip (about 10%), Little Orange-Tip (about 10%) and Large Salmon Arab Tip (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Banded Scarlet Tip is recorded against all the insects logged in Hyderabad (32 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.
