Danaus genutia
In 3 days ~30% in a week ~50%
Danaus genutia, the common tiger, is one of the common butterflies of India. It belongs to the "crows and tigers", that is, the Danainae group of the brush-footed butterflies family. The butterfly is also called striped tiger in India to differentiate it from the equally common plain tiger, Danaus chrysippus. The species was first described by Pieter Cramer in 1779.
The butterfly closely resembles the monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) of the Americas. The wingspan is 70 to 95 millimetres (2.8 to 3.7 in). Both sexes of the butterfly have tawny wings with veins marked with broad black bands. The male has a pouch on the hindwing. The margins of the wings are black with two rows of white spots. The underside of the wings resembles the upperside but is paler in colouration. The male common tiger has a prominent black-and-white spot on the underside of the hindwing. In drier regions the tawny part of the hindwing pales and approaches white in colour making it very similar to the white tiger (D. melanippus).
D. genutia is distributed throughout India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar and extending to South-East Asia and Australia (except New Guinea). At... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cuc Phuong National Park | 🇻🇳 Vietnam | |
| 2 | Keoladeo National Park | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 3 | Tangkoko Nature Reserve | 🇮🇩 Indonesia | |
| 4 | Cat Tien National Park | 🇻🇳 Vietnam | |
| 5 | Chitwan National Park | 🇳🇵 Nepal | |
| 6 | Wilpattu National Park | 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka | |
| 7 | Udawalawe National Park | 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka | |
| 8 | Minneriya National Park | 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka | |
| 9 | Kanha National Park | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 10 | Kinabalu Park | 🇲🇾 Malaysia | |
| 11 | Khao Yai National Park | 🇹🇭 Thailand | |
| 12 | Kaeng Krachan National Park | 🇹🇭 Thailand | |
| 13 | Doi Inthanon National Park | 🇹🇭 Thailand |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Surat | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 2 | Jabalpur | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 3 | Xiuying District | 🇨🇳 China | |
| 4 | Guiyang | 🇨🇳 China | |
| 5 | Kolkata | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 6 | Mumbai | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 7 | Nashik | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 8 | Kalyan-Dombivli | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 9 | Salem | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 10 | Phnom Penh | 🇰🇭 Cambodia |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Common Tiger Butterfly sighting in Pune on a given day, based on 43 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 84th most-seen of the 340 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 30%, 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 Common Tiger Butterfly in Pune on a given day, against under 5% in February, June–July and December, the lowest months. That is one of Pune's wettest months, with about 280 mm of rain against almost none in January.
Between 10 am and 1 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Common Tiger Butterfly sightings with a recorded time, and about 8 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
31st of 37
Of the 37 cities where we can rate Common Tiger Butterfly sightings, Pune ranks 31st at about 10%. The best odds are in Surat (India, about 40%), Jabalpur (India, about 30%) and Xiuying District (China, about 30%).
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Common Tiger Butterfly is recorded against all the insects logged in Pune (43 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.
