Helcyra superba
In 3 days ~20% in a week ~40%
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|
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| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nanjing | 🇨🇳 China |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Superb Emperor sighting in Nanjing on a given day, based on 13 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 123rd most-seen of the 272 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 20%, and over a week to about 40%, if each day is a fresh chance.
July and August
In those months about 20% of wildlife watchers report a Superb Emperor in Nanjing on a given day, against under 5% in January, March–June and September–November, the lowest months. Those are among Nanjing's wettest months, with about 200 mm of rain a month against 40 mm in December.
Only Nanjing, in our data
Nanjing is the only city on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Superb Emperor sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same family: Nymphalidae
The closest relatives of the Superb Emperor that you can see in Nanjing (family Nymphalidae, Brush-footed Butterflies) are Spotted Leopard Butterfly (about 20%), Blue Admiral (about 20%) and Asian Comma (about 20%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Superb Emperor is recorded against all the insects logged in Nanjing (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.
