Mycalesis patnia
In 3 days ~40% in a week ~70%
Mycalesis patnia, the glad-eye bushbrown, is a satyrid butterfly found in southern India and Sri Lanka. Upperside: The male has a dark umber-brown ground colour slightly suffused with ochraceous. Forewings and hindwings with bright ochraceous-yellow, slender sub-terminal and terminal lines; cilia pale brown. Forewing with a large median and a much smaller subapical white-centred black ocellus, each with an orange-yellow iris, the upper portion of the iris round the median ocellus very broad, the lower incomplete and a more or less triangular orange-yellow discal patch. Hindwing uniform, with two very small fulvous-ringed black ocelli.
Underside of male deep ochraceous yellow, subterminal and terminal line as on the upperside; forewing and hindwing crossed near base by a darker ochraceous-yellow line, followed by a silvery discal band, beyond which there are two ocelli as on the upperside, but each encircled also by an outer silvery ring; and on the hindwing a curved series of seven similar ocelli having a silvery band bordering them on both sides, the third and fourth ocelli from tornus together and the apical ocellus by itself placed on a brighter ochraceous patch... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Periyar National Park | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 2 | Sinharaja Forest Reserve | 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kozhikode | 🇮🇳 India |
Possible
About 20% of wildlife watchers report a Glad-Eye Bushbrown sighting in Kozhikode on a given day, based on 13 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 59th most-seen of the 138 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 40%, and over a week to about 70%, if each day is a fresh chance.
September and October
In those months about 30% of wildlife watchers report a Glad-Eye Bushbrown in Kozhikode on a given day, against under 5% in May–June and November–February, the lowest months.
Between 9 am and noon
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Glad-Eye Bushbrown sightings with a recorded time, and nearly all of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Kozhikode, in our data
Kozhikode is the only city on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Glad-Eye Bushbrown sightings: about 20% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Glad-Eye Bushbrown is recorded against all the insects logged in Kozhikode (13 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.
