Micronia aculeata
In 3 days ~30% in a week ~60%
Micronia aculeata also known as Grey Swallowtail Moth is a species of moth of subfamily Microniinae of family Uraniidae found in Myanmar, India and Sri Lanka towards Sulawesi. It was first described by Achille Guenée in 1857. Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cat Tien National Park | 🇻🇳 Vietnam | |
| 2 | Kaeng Krachan National Park | 🇹🇭 Thailand |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 2 | Jabalpur | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 3 | Thiruvananthapuram | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 4 | Thrissur | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 5 | Kozhikode | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 6 | Bhopal | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 7 | Colombo [Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte] | 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka | |
| 8 | Kaohsiung | 🇹🇼 Taiwan | |
| 9 | Tuen Mun | 🇨🇳 China | |
| 10 | Pune | 🇮🇳 India |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Grey Swallowtail Moth sighting in Kaohsiung on a given day, based on 40 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 36th most-seen of the 218 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.
May–June and September–October
In those months about 20% of wildlife watchers report a Grey Swallowtail Moth in Kaohsiung on a given day, against under 5% in January to March, the lowest months.
Between 9 am and noon
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Grey Swallowtail Moth sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
8th of 20
Of the 20 cities where we can rate Grey Swallowtail Moth sightings, Kaohsiung ranks 8th at about 10%. The best odds are in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar (India, about 30%), Jabalpur (India, about 20%) and Thiruvananthapuram (India, about 20%).
Same order: Lepidoptera
The closest relatives of the Grey Swallowtail Moth that you can see in Kaohsiung (order Lepidoptera, Butterflies and Moths) are Lime Swallowtail (about 30%), Pale Grass Blue (about 30%) and Lesser Grass Blue (about 20%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Grey Swallowtail Moth is recorded against all the insects logged in Kaohsiung (40 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.
