Melanis pixe
In 3 days ~30% in a week ~50%
Melanis pixe, the red-bordered pixie, is a species in the butterfly family Riodinidae. It was described by Jean Baptiste Boisduval in 1836. Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rincón de la Vieja National Park | 🇨🇷 Costa Rica | |
| 2 | Biotopo Cerro Cahuí | 🇬🇹 Guatemala | |
| 3 | Cañón del Sumidero National Park | 🇲🇽 Mexico | |
| 4 | Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve | 🇨🇷 Costa Rica | |
| 5 | Parque Natural Metropolitano | 🇵🇦 Panama | |
| 6 | Soberanía National Park | 🇵🇦 Panama |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | San Pedro Sula | 🇭🇳 Honduras | |
| 2 | Tegucigalpa | 🇭🇳 Honduras | |
| 3 | San Salvador | 🇸🇻 El Salvador | |
| 4 | San José | 🇨🇷 Costa Rica | |
| 5 | Panama City | 🇵🇦 Panama |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Red-Bordered Pixie sighting in San José on a given day, based on 35 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 42nd most-seen of the 239 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.
May and July
In those months about 20% of wildlife watchers report a Red-Bordered Pixie in San José on a given day, against under 5% in January and February, the lowest months.
Between 11 am and 2 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Red-Bordered Pixie sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
4th of 5
Of the 5 cities where we can rate Red-Bordered Pixie sightings, San José ranks 4th at about 10%. The best odds are in San Pedro Sula (Honduras, about 20%), Tegucigalpa (Honduras, about 10%) and San Salvador (El Salvador, about 10%).
Same family: Lycaenidae
The closest relatives of the Red-Bordered Pixie that you can see in San José (family Lycaenidae, Gossamer-winged Butterflies) are Cassius Blue (about 10%) and Sky-Blue Hairstreak (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Red-Bordered Pixie is recorded against all the insects logged in San José (35 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.
