Colotis amata
In 3 days ~50% in a week ~80%
Colotis amata, the Small Salmon Arab, is a small butterfly in the family Pieridae. It is primarily found in South Asia in countries like India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Similar populations across Arabian Peninsula, Africa and Madagascar were earlier treated as being conspecific. However, based on later studies, they have been split and now regarded as a different species Colotis calais.
The male's upperside has a salmon-pink ground colour. The costa on the forewing is black and thickly overlaid with greyish or pinkish scales; a black spot at apex of cell, which may be large and quadrate or smaller and lunate; termen broadly black, with an enclosed double transverse series of spots of the ground colour the inner series consists of a large spot in interspace 1, two very small spots in interspaces 2 and 3, one in each, and four larger anterior spots placed in a curve; the spots in the outer series are variable in number, but generally there is one in each interspace, these are more or less linear in shape. Hindwing: a band on costal margin extended to just within the upper margin of the cell, covered with dense black specialized scales; this black band joined onto a... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Berenty Reserve | 🇲🇬 Madagascar | |
| 2 | Keoladeo National Park | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 3 | Liwonde National Park | 🇲🇼 Malawi | |
| 4 | Namib-Naukluft National Park | 🇳🇦 Namibia | |
| 5 | Etosha National Park | 🇳🇦 Namibia | |
| 6 | Kruger National Park | 🇿🇦 South Africa |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Surat | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 2 | Vasai-Virar | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 3 | Karachi | 🇵🇰 Pakistan | |
| 4 | Mumbai | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 5 | Coimbatore | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 6 | Ahmedabad | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 7 | Vadodara | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 8 | Dubai | 🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates | |
| 9 | Mysuru | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 10 | Salem | 🇮🇳 India |
Possible
About 20% of wildlife watchers report a Small Salmon Arab sighting in Mumbai on a given day, based on 206 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 24th most-seen of the 362 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 50%, and over a week to about 80%, if each day is a fresh chance.
September and November–December
In those months about 30% of wildlife watchers report a Small Salmon Arab in Mumbai on a given day, against about 20% in January–August and October, the lowest months.
Between 10 am and 1 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Small Salmon Arab sightings with a recorded time, and nearly all of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
4th of 13
Of the 13 cities where we can rate Small Salmon Arab sightings, Mumbai ranks 4th at about 20%. The best odds are in Surat (India, about 30%), Vasai-Virar (India, about 30%) and Karachi (Pakistan, about 20%).
Same family: Pieridae
The closest relatives of the Small Salmon Arab that you can see in Mumbai (family Pieridae, Whites, Yellows, and Sulphurs) are Lemon Migrant (about 30%), Common Grass Yellow (about 30%) and Common Gull (butterfly) (about 20%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Small Salmon Arab is recorded against all the insects logged in Mumbai (206 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.
