Catopsilia pyranthe
In 3 days ~30% in a week ~60%
Catopsilia pyranthe, the mottled emigrant, is a medium-sized butterfly of the family Pieridae found in south Asia, southeast Asia, and parts of Australia. The upperside is chalky white, slightly tinted in some specimens with green. The forewing is with or without a discocellular black spot, that varies in size; costa and termen sometimes without a black margin; occasionally the costa has its apical third narrowly black, broadened slightly at the apex with black spots between the anterior veins; or again, the costa may be narrowly black, the apex very broadly so, and this colour continued down the termen but narrowed posteriorly. The hindwing is sometimes immaculate, but generally with narrow terminal black spots at the apices of the veins, these often reduced to mere dots, or again so broadened as to coalesce into a narrow terminal black margin.
The underside's ground colour is similar, suffused on the anterior half of the forewing and over the whole surface of the hindwing with a greenish tint that varies to an ochraceous yellow, and, except in the very palest specimens, is evenly irrorated (sprinkled) over the greenish or ochraceous-tinted areas with transverse... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Keoladeo National Park | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 2 | Yala National Park | 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Salem | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 2 | Prayagraj | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 3 | Jamshedpur | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 4 | Karachi | 🇵🇰 Pakistan | |
| 5 | Vadodara | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 6 | Berhampore | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 7 | Chennai | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 8 | Jabalpur | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 9 | Raipur | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 10 | Hyderabad | 🇮🇳 India |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Mottled Emigrant sighting in Kochi on a given day, based on 79 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 81st most-seen of the 428 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.
June to August
In those months about 20% of wildlife watchers report a Mottled Emigrant in Kochi on a given day, against under 5% in May and December, the lowest months. Those are among Kochi's wettest months, with about 430 mm of rain a month against 15 mm in January.
Between 9 am and noon
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Mottled Emigrant sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
25th of 39
Of the 39 cities where we can rate Mottled Emigrant sightings, Kochi ranks 25th at about 10%. The best odds are in Salem (India, about 50%), Prayagraj (India, about 50%) and Jamshedpur (India, about 40%).
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Mottled Emigrant is recorded against all the insects logged in Kochi (79 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.
