Rathinda amor
In 3 days ~10% in a week ~30%
Rathinda is a butterfly genus in the family Lycaenidae. It consists of a single species, Rathinda amor, the monkey puzzle, found in Sri Lanka and India. Male. Upperside brownish-black with a violet-tint. Forewing with a white spot (sometimes slightly ochreous) beyond the end of the cell, with two smaller spots in an outwardly oblique row from it. Hindwiag with two black lunular spots between the tails and indications of a third black spot in the next upper interspace, all three capped with orange, with a fine blue thread on their outer sides; tails black, tipped with white. Cilia blackish, with white tips. Underside white, sometimes tinged with yellow; the markings pale chocolate. Forewing with the apical third chocolate, its inner edge in an even curve from the middle of the costa to the hinder margin near the angle, containing a sub-marginal series of small black lunules inwardly edged with white; the middle portion of the white space with some chocolate suffusion, a thin linear mark near the hinder angle, two short streaks from the base followed by three or four small spots. Hindwing with a lunulated, outwardly curved discal line, the inner wing space covered with... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
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| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
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| 1 | Kochi | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 2 | Ponnani | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 3 | Kozhikode | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 4 | Thiruvananthapuram | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 5 | Kollam | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 6 | Colombo [Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte] | 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka | |
| 7 | Kolkata | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 8 | Mumbai | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 9 | Chennai | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 10 | Hyderabad | 🇮🇳 India |
Rare
Under 5% of wildlife watchers report a Monkey Puzzle sighting in Pune on a given day, based on 7 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 261st most-seen of the 340 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 10%, and over a week to about 30%, if each day is a fresh chance.
July–August and October
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Monkey Puzzle in Pune on a given day, against under 5% in September and November–June, the lowest months. Those are among Pune's wettest months, with about 340 mm of rain a month against almost none in January.
12th of 12
Of the 12 cities where we can rate Monkey Puzzle sightings, Pune ranks 12th at under 5%. The best odds are in Kochi (India, about 20%), Ponnani (India, about 20%) and Kozhikode (India, about 20%).
Same family: Lycaenidae
The closest relatives of the Monkey Puzzle that you can see in Pune (family Lycaenidae, Gossamer-winged Butterflies) are Red Pierrot (about 40%), Zebra Blue (about 30%) and Plains Cupid (about 20%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Monkey Puzzle is recorded against all the insects logged in Pune (7 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.
