Euploea klugii
In 3 days ~20% in a week ~30%
Euploea klugii, the brown king crow or king crow, is a butterfly from the family Nymphalidae found in India and Southeast Asia. The species was first described by the entomologist Frederic Moore in 1858. The male forewing is variable in shape, especially in the outline of the termen and dorsum. It is comparatively long in proportion to its width, owing to the lower convexity of the dorsal margin. Its termen is oblique, slightly convex. In the 'novarae' variety, it is broad, with the great convexity of the dorsal margin making it almost subquadrate, while the termen is more convex than in the typical form. In the female, the difference is less marked.
The typical form on the upper side is a dark brown forewing suffused up to the termen with a blue gloss, a spot at the apex of the cell, a small coastal spot, and two short streaks beyond the apex of the cell. In the female there are two discal spots and in the six subterminal and terminal series of spots, a second series is absent. In both sexes, the subterminal spots are produced inwards. All the spots are bluish white. Hindwing umber brown, the centre glossed with blue; subterminal rows of spots incomplete or obsolescent... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Minneriya National Park | 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka |
More parks will be added in future updates.
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Brown King Crow Butterfly sighting in Kolkata on a given day, based on 5 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 193rd most-seen of the 213 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 20%, and over a week to about 30%, if each day is a fresh chance.
April, September and December
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Brown King Crow Butterfly in Kolkata on a given day, against under 5% in January–March, May–August and October–November, the lowest months.
Between 9 am and noon
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Brown King Crow Butterfly 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 4 cities where we can rate Brown King Crow Butterfly sightings, Kolkata ranks 3rd at about 10%, level with the leaders once rounded. The best odds are in Mumbai (India, about 10%) and Kochi (India, about 10%).
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Brown King Crow Butterfly is recorded against all the insects logged in Kolkata (5 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.
