Charaxes psaphon
In 3 days ~10% in a week ~30%
Charaxes psaphon, plain tawny rajah, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It was described by John Obadiah Westwood in 1847. It is found in the Indomalayan realm. Charaxes psaphon psaphon (Sri Lanka) Charaxes psaphon imna Butler, 1870 (India)
Charaxes psaphon psaphon: Male. Upperside dark fulvous-red. Forewing with the exterior half purpurescent-black, forming a broad marginal band, its inner edge being erect and sinuous; a discocellular duplex black mark, and some very indistinct slender blackish discoidal streaks. Hindwing with a very broad apical and marginal band, which sinuously attenuates hindward, and terminates in two small white-marked anal spots; a short sinuous black streak from the costa contiguous to the band. Underside fulvous-brown, washed with purplish-grey. Both wings crossed by three basal, and two discal zigzag black lines with pale borders. Forewing also with a submarginal fascia composed of more or less defined small blackish dentate inner spots and outer diffused pearly-white dentate lunules. Hindwing also with a submarginal darker blackish-grey lunular fascia, and outer series of small black-tipt pearly-white dentate spots... Wikipedia →
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With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Plain Tawny Rajah sighting in Mumbai on a given day, based on 13 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 212th most-seen of the 362 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 10%, and over a week to about 30%, if each day is a fresh chance.
August to February
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Plain Tawny Rajah in Mumbai on a given day, against under 5% in March to July, the lowest months.
Only Mumbai, in our data
Mumbai is the only city on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Plain Tawny Rajah sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same family: Nymphalidae
The closest relatives of the Plain Tawny Rajah that you can see in Mumbai (family Nymphalidae, Brush-footed Butterflies) are Great Eggfly (about 40%), Blue Tiger (about 30%) and Plain Tiger Butterfly (about 30%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Plain Tawny Rajah is recorded against all the insects logged in Mumbai (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.
