Rathinda amor
In 3 days ~40% in a week ~60%
Rathinda is a butterfly genus in the family Lycaenidae. It consists of a single species, Rathinda amor, the monkey puzzle, found in Sri Lanka and India. Male. Upperside brownish-black with a violet-tint. Forewing with a white spot (sometimes slightly ochreous) beyond the end of the cell, with two smaller spots in an outwardly oblique row from it. Hindwiag with two black lunular spots between the tails and indications of a third black spot in the next upper interspace, all three capped with orange, with a fine blue thread on their outer sides; tails black, tipped with white. Cilia blackish, with white tips. Underside white, sometimes tinged with yellow; the markings pale chocolate. Forewing with the apical third chocolate, its inner edge in an even curve from the middle of the costa to the hinder margin near the angle, containing a sub-marginal series of small black lunules inwardly edged with white; the middle portion of the white space with some chocolate suffusion, a thin linear mark near the hinder angle, two short streaks from the base followed by three or four small spots. Hindwing with a lunulated, outwardly curved discal line, the inner wing space covered with... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
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| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
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| 1 | Kochi | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 2 | Ponnani | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 3 | Kozhikode | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 4 | Thiruvananthapuram | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 5 | Kollam | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 6 | Colombo [Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte] | 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka | |
| 7 | Kolkata | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 8 | Mumbai | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 9 | Chennai | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 10 | Hyderabad | 🇮🇳 India |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Monkey Puzzle sighting in Kolkata on a given day, based on 31 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 69th most-seen of the 213 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 40%, and over a week to about 60%, if each day is a fresh chance.
April and October–November
In those months about 20% of wildlife watchers report a Monkey Puzzle in Kolkata on a given day, against under 5% in February and August, the lowest months. Those are among Kolkata's driest months, with about 75 mm of rain a month against 330 mm in July.
7th of 12
Of the 12 cities where we can rate Monkey Puzzle sightings, Kolkata ranks 7th at about 10%. The best odds are in Kochi (India, about 20%), Ponnani (India, about 20%) and Kozhikode (India, about 20%).
Same family: Lycaenidae
The closest relatives of the Monkey Puzzle that you can see in Kolkata (family Lycaenidae, Gossamer-winged Butterflies) are Plains Cupid (about 30%), Pale Grass Blue (about 20%) and Gram Blue (about 20%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Monkey Puzzle is recorded against all the insects logged in Kolkata (31 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.
