Danaus genutia
In 3 days ~30% in a week ~60%
Danaus genutia, the common tiger, is one of the common butterflies of India. It belongs to the "crows and tigers", that is, the Danainae group of the brush-footed butterflies family. The butterfly is also called striped tiger in India to differentiate it from the equally common plain tiger, Danaus chrysippus. The species was first described by Pieter Cramer in 1779.
The butterfly closely resembles the monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) of the Americas. The wingspan is 70 to 95 millimetres (2.8 to 3.7 in). Both sexes of the butterfly have tawny wings with veins marked with broad black bands. The male has a pouch on the hindwing. The margins of the wings are black with two rows of white spots. The underside of the wings resembles the upperside but is paler in colouration. The male common tiger has a prominent black-and-white spot on the underside of the hindwing. In drier regions the tawny part of the hindwing pales and approaches white in colour making it very similar to the white tiger (D. melanippus).
D. genutia is distributed throughout India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar and extending to South-East Asia and Australia (except New Guinea). At... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cuc Phuong National Park | 🇻🇳 Vietnam | |
| 2 | Keoladeo National Park | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 3 | Tangkoko Nature Reserve | 🇮🇩 Indonesia | |
| 4 | Cat Tien National Park | 🇻🇳 Vietnam | |
| 5 | Chitwan National Park | 🇳🇵 Nepal | |
| 6 | Wilpattu National Park | 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka | |
| 7 | Udawalawe National Park | 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka | |
| 8 | Minneriya National Park | 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka | |
| 9 | Kanha National Park | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 10 | Kinabalu Park | 🇲🇾 Malaysia | |
| 11 | Khao Yai National Park | 🇹🇭 Thailand | |
| 12 | Kaeng Krachan National Park | 🇹🇭 Thailand | |
| 13 | Doi Inthanon National Park | 🇹🇭 Thailand |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Surat | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 2 | Jabalpur | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 3 | Xiuying District | 🇨🇳 China | |
| 4 | Guiyang | 🇨🇳 China | |
| 5 | Kolkata | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 6 | Mumbai | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 7 | Nashik | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 8 | Kalyan-Dombivli | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 9 | Salem | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 10 | Phnom Penh | 🇰🇭 Cambodia |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Common Tiger Butterfly sighting in Kozhikode on a given day, based on 7 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 87th most-seen of the 138 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 October–November
In those months about 20% of wildlife watchers report a Common Tiger Butterfly in Kozhikode on a given day, against under 5% in September and December–April, the lowest months. Those are among Kozhikode's wettest months, with about 240 mm of rain a month against 5 mm in January.
Between 10 am and 1 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Common Tiger Butterfly sightings with a recorded time, and about 8 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
30th of 37
Of the 37 cities where we can rate Common Tiger Butterfly sightings, Kozhikode ranks 30th at about 10%. The best odds are in Surat (India, about 40%), Jabalpur (India, about 30%) and Xiuying District (China, about 30%).
Same family: Nymphalidae
The closest relatives of the Common Tiger Butterfly that you can see in Kozhikode (family Nymphalidae, Brush-footed Butterflies) are Chocolate Pansy (about 40%), Tailed Palmfly (about 40%) and Common Crow (about 30%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Common Tiger Butterfly is recorded against all the insects logged in Kozhikode (7 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.
