Lycorea cleobaea
In 3 days ~20% in a week ~30%
Lycorea halia cleobaea, the tropical milkweed butterfly, is a subspecies of Lycorea halia, also called the tropical milkweed butterfly, a nymphalid butterfly in the Danainae subfamily. It is endemic to the island of Hispaniola (Haiti and the Dominican Republic) in the Caribbean. Its habitat is the tropical rainforest. Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Los Haitises National Park | 🇩🇴 Dominican Republic | |
| 2 | Lago de Yojoa | 🇭🇳 Honduras | |
| 3 | Serra dos Órgãos National Park | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 4 | Manu National Park | 🇵🇪 Peru | |
| 5 | Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve | 🇨🇷 Costa Rica | |
| 6 | Corcovado National Park | 🇨🇷 Costa Rica | |
| 7 | Arenal Volcano National Park | 🇨🇷 Costa Rica | |
| 8 | Carara National Park | 🇨🇷 Costa Rica | |
| 9 | Iguaçu National Park | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 10 | Iguazú National Park | 🇦🇷 Argentina | |
| 11 | La Amistad International Park (Panama) | 🇵🇦 Panama | |
| 12 | Braulio Carrillo National Park | 🇨🇷 Costa Rica |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Santo Domingo | 🇩🇴 Dominican Republic | |
| 2 | Caracas | 🇻🇪 Venezuela | |
| 3 | Porto Alegre | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 4 | São Paulo | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 5 | San José | 🇨🇷 Costa Rica | |
| 6 | Belo Horizonte | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 7 | Mexico City | 🇲🇽 México |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Tiger Mimic-Queen sighting in Porto Alegre on a given day, based on 6 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 176th most-seen of the 226 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 20%, and over a week to about 30%, if each day is a fresh chance.
February
In that month about 20% of wildlife watchers report a Tiger Mimic-Queen in Porto Alegre on a given day, against under 5% in April, June and August–January, the lowest months.
Between 10 am and 1 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Tiger Mimic-Queen 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 7
Of the 7 cities where we can rate Tiger Mimic-Queen sightings, Porto Alegre ranks 3rd at about 10%. The best odds are in Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic, about 20%) and Caracas (Venezuela, about 10%).
Same family: Nymphalidae
The closest relatives of the Tiger Mimic-Queen that you can see in Porto Alegre (family Nymphalidae, Brush-footed Butterflies) are Themisto Amberwing (about 40%), Julia Heliconian (about 30%) and Ruddy Daggerwing (about 30%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Tiger Mimic-Queen is recorded against all the insects logged in Porto Alegre (6 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.
