Heliopetes alana
In 3 days ~10% in a week ~30%
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Iguazú National Park | 🇦🇷 Argentina | |
| 2 | Iguaçu National Park | 🇧🇷 Brazil |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Porto Alegre | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 2 | San Salvador | 🇸🇻 El Salvador | |
| 3 | Caracas | 🇻🇪 Venezuela | |
| 4 | São Paulo | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 5 | Campinas | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 6 | San José | 🇨🇷 Costa Rica |
Rare
Under 5% of wildlife watchers report an Alana White-Skipper sighting in San José on a given day, based on 7 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 172nd most-seen of the 239 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.
January, May–June, August and October
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report an Alana White-Skipper in San José on a given day, against under 5% in February–April, July, September and November–December, the lowest months.
Between 10 am and 1 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Alana White-Skipper sightings with a recorded time, and nearly all of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
6th of 6
Of the 6 cities where we can rate Alana White-Skipper sightings, San José ranks 6th at under 5%. The best odds are in Porto Alegre (Brazil, about 10%), San Salvador (El Salvador, about 10%) and Caracas (Venezuela, about 10%).
Same family: Hesperiidae
The closest relatives of the Alana White-Skipper that you can see in San José (family Hesperiidae, Skippers) are Pale Sicklewing (about 10%), Yellow-Tipped Flasher (about 10%) and Pompeius Skipper (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Alana White-Skipper is recorded against all the insects logged in San José (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.
