Mycalesis perseus
In 3 days ~20% in a week ~50%
Mycalesis perseus, the dingy bushbrown or common bushbrown, is a species of satyrine butterfly found in south Asia and southeast Asia. Mycalesis perseus exhibits seasonal dimorphism with distinct wet-season and dry-season forms.
Wet-season form. Male and female. Upperside dark to somewhat pale vandyke-brown. Fore wing with a white-centred, fulvous-ringed, black ocellus in interspace 2, and rarely a very small but similar ocellus in interspace 5. Hind wing uniform, occasionally two or three postmedian obscure ocelli present. Fore and hind wings with subterminal and terminal pale lines. Underside: the groundcolour, subterminal and terminal lines on the wings as on upper-side, but crossed by a common purplish - white narrow discal fascia. Fore wing with from two to four, hind wing normally with seven ocelli, similar to, but more clearly defined than, the ocelli on the upperside; on both wings the line of ocelli bordered inwardly and outwardly by sinuous purplish-white lines. On the hind wing only the three posterior ocelli in a straight line, the rest strongly curved outwards. In the female the median or posterior ocellus on the upperside of the fore wing is always larger... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Litchfield National Park | 🇦🇺 Australia | |
| 2 | Daintree National Park | 🇦🇺 Australia |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Salem | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 2 | Yogyakarta | 🇮🇩 Indonesia | |
| 3 | Mysuru | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 4 | Singapore | 🇸🇬 Singapore | |
| 5 | Bengaluru | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 6 | Jakarta | 🇮🇩 Indonesia | |
| 7 | Chennai | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 8 | Kuala Lumpur | 🇲🇾 Malaysia |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Dingy Bushbrown sighting in Mysuru on a given day, based on 5 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 87th most-seen of the 95 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 20%, and over a week to about 50%, if each day is a fresh chance.
September
In that month about 20% of wildlife watchers report a Dingy Bushbrown in Mysuru on a given day, against under 5% in November to June, the lowest months. That is one of Mysuru's wettest months, with about 140 mm of rain against almost none in January.
Between 8 and 11 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Dingy Bushbrown sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
3rd of 8
Of the 8 cities where we can rate Dingy Bushbrown sightings, Mysuru ranks 3rd at about 10%. The best odds are in Salem (India, about 20%) and Yogyakarta (Indonesia, about 10%).
Same family: Nymphalidae
The closest relatives of the Dingy Bushbrown that you can see in Mysuru (family Nymphalidae, Brush-footed Butterflies) are Plain Tiger Butterfly (about 30%), Lemon Pansy (about 30%) and Common Crow (about 20%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Dingy Bushbrown is recorded against all the insects logged in Mysuru (5 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.
