Mycalesis perseus
In 3 days ~50% in a week ~80%
Mycalesis perseus, the dingy bushbrown or common bushbrown, is a species of satyrine butterfly found in south Asia and southeast Asia. Mycalesis perseus exhibits seasonal dimorphism with distinct wet-season and dry-season forms.
Wet-season form. Male and female. Upperside dark to somewhat pale vandyke-brown. Fore wing with a white-centred, fulvous-ringed, black ocellus in interspace 2, and rarely a very small but similar ocellus in interspace 5. Hind wing uniform, occasionally two or three postmedian obscure ocelli present. Fore and hind wings with subterminal and terminal pale lines. Underside: the groundcolour, subterminal and terminal lines on the wings as on upper-side, but crossed by a common purplish - white narrow discal fascia. Fore wing with from two to four, hind wing normally with seven ocelli, similar to, but more clearly defined than, the ocelli on the upperside; on both wings the line of ocelli bordered inwardly and outwardly by sinuous purplish-white lines. On the hind wing only the three posterior ocelli in a straight line, the rest strongly curved outwards. In the female the median or posterior ocellus on the upperside of the fore wing is always larger... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Litchfield National Park | 🇦🇺 Australia | |
| 2 | Daintree National Park | 🇦🇺 Australia |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Salem | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 2 | Yogyakarta | 🇮🇩 Indonesia | |
| 3 | Mysuru | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 4 | Singapore | 🇸🇬 Singapore | |
| 5 | Bengaluru | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 6 | Jakarta | 🇮🇩 Indonesia | |
| 7 | Chennai | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 8 | Kuala Lumpur | 🇲🇾 Malaysia |
Possible
About 20% of wildlife watchers report a Dingy Bushbrown sighting in Salem on a given day, based on 29 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 38th most-seen of the 99 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 50%, and over a week to about 80%, if each day is a fresh chance.
September
In that month about 50% of wildlife watchers report a Dingy Bushbrown in Salem on a given day, against under 5% in March, May, July and November, the lowest months. That is one of Salem's wettest months, with about 110 mm of rain against 5 mm in January.
Between 8 and 11 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Dingy Bushbrown sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Yes
Of the 8 cities where we can rate Dingy Bushbrown sightings, Salem has the highest daily chance: about 20%. Next come Yogyakarta (Indonesia, about 10%) and Mysuru (India, about 10%).
Same family: Nymphalidae
The closest relatives of the Dingy Bushbrown that you can see in Salem (family Nymphalidae, Brush-footed Butterflies) are Plain Tiger Butterfly (about 70%), Lemon Pansy (about 50%) and Angled Castor (about 40%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Dingy Bushbrown is recorded against all the insects logged in Salem (29 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.
