Papilio jacksoni
In 3 days ~30% in a week ~60%
Papilio jacksoni, the Jackson's swallowtail, is a butterfly of the family Papilionidae. It is found in Africa. The female adults mimic Amauris echeria and relatives. The larvae feed on Clausena, Toddalia and Clausena anisata.
"Male as in ssp. echerioides, but black more sooty, median band narrower, reduced to very well separated spots in forewing, white with faint ochreous tinge. Female as in echerioides, but white apical spot does not touch the margin; white spots in hindwing in both sexes well inside margin." (Robert Herbert Carcasson, 1960).
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| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bwindi Impenetrable National Park | 🇺🇬 Uganda |
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| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nairobi | 🇰🇪 Kenya |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Jackson’s Swallowtail sighting in Nairobi on a given day, based on 13 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 44th most-seen of the 123 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.
September
In that month about 30% of wildlife watchers report a Jackson’s Swallowtail in Nairobi on a given day, against under 5% in February, April–May and November, the lowest months. That is one of Nairobi's driest months, with about 30 mm of rain against 150 mm in April.
Between 10 am and 1 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Jackson’s Swallowtail sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Nairobi, in our data
Nairobi is the only city on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Jackson’s Swallowtail sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same genus: Papilio
The closest relatives of the Jackson’s Swallowtail that you can see in Nairobi (genus Papilio, Common Swallowtails) are Mocker Swallowtail (about 30%), Citrus Swallowtail (about 30%) and Apple-Green Swallowtail (about 30%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Jackson’s Swallowtail is recorded against all the insects logged in Nairobi (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.
