Pieris canidia
In 3 days ~30% in a week ~60%
Pieris canidia, the Indian cabbage white, is a butterfly in the family Pieridae found in India, Nepal and Indochina. Pieris rapae is one of the most closely related species in the Pieridae. The male is white to pale cream on its upperside. The base of the forewing, the basal portion of the costa, and the base and upper margin of the cell have a scattering of black scales. It is black from the apex to about the middle of the terminal margin. On the latter the black extends for a very short distance triangularly along the veins. There is a round black spot in interspace 3. The hindwing has a subcostal black spot as in Pieris rapae but is generally larger and more conspicuous, and a series of four or five terminal black spots that vary in size at the apices of the veins.
Underside: the forewing is white; cell and costa are lightly irrorated (speckled) with black scales; apex is somewhat broadly tinged with ochraceous yellow. Interspaces 1, 3 and 5 have conspicuous subquadrate black spots; the spot in interspace 1 sometimes extends out of interspace 1. That in interspace 5 is ill-defined. Hindwing: from pale, almost white, to dark ochraceous, thickly irrorated all over... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cuc Phuong National Park | 🇻🇳 Vietnam | |
| 2 | Kaziranga National Park | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 3 | Taroko National Park | 🇹🇼 Taiwan | |
| 4 | Chitwan National Park | 🇳🇵 Nepal | |
| 5 | Doi Inthanon National Park | 🇹🇭 Thailand |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kathmandu | 🇳🇵 Nepal | |
| 2 | Chandigarh | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 3 | Tuen Mun | 🇨🇳 China | |
| 4 | Taichung | 🇹🇼 Taiwan | |
| 5 | Dehradun | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 6 | Chengdu | 🇨🇳 China | |
| 7 | Guwahati | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 8 | Seoul | 🇰🇷 South Korea | |
| 9 | Daejeon | 🇰🇷 South Korea | |
| 10 | Zhuhai [Macau] | 🇨🇳 China |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report an Indian Cabbage White sighting in Nanjing on a given day, based on 21 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 63rd most-seen of the 272 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.
May and August
In those months about 20% of wildlife watchers report an Indian Cabbage White in Nanjing on a given day, against under 5% in July and November–February, the lowest months.
Between 11 am and 2 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Indian Cabbage White sightings with a recorded time, and about 8 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
14th of 20
Of the 20 cities where we can rate Indian Cabbage White sightings, Nanjing ranks 14th at about 10%. The best odds are in Kathmandu (Nepal, about 40%), Chandigarh (India, about 30%) and Tuen Mun (China, about 20%).
Same genus: Pieris
The closest relatives of the Indian Cabbage White that you can see in Nanjing (genus Pieris, Garden Whites) are Pieris latouchei (about 30%) and Small White (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Indian Cabbage White is recorded against all the insects logged in Nanjing (21 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.
