Anteos clorinde
In 3 days ~20% in a week ~30%
Anteos clorinde, the white angled-sulphur or the ghost brimstone, is a butterfly of the family Pieridae. The species was originally described by Jean-Baptiste Godart in 1824. Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chapada Diamantina National Park | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 2 | Santa Rosa National Park | 🇨🇷 Costa Rica | |
| 3 | Rincón de la Vieja National Park | 🇨🇷 Costa Rica | |
| 4 | Lago de Yojoa | 🇭🇳 Honduras | |
| 5 | Biotopo Cerro Cahuí | 🇬🇹 Guatemala | |
| 6 | Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve | 🇨🇷 Costa Rica | |
| 7 | Tenorio Volcano National Park | 🇨🇷 Costa Rica | |
| 8 | Arenal Volcano National Park | 🇨🇷 Costa Rica |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Santa Cruz de la Sierra | 🇧🇴 Bolivia | |
| 2 | Cali | 🇨🇴 Colombia | |
| 3 | Salvador | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 4 | Medellín | 🇨🇴 Colombia | |
| 5 | Brasilia | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 6 | Campinas | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 7 | San José | 🇨🇷 Costa Rica | |
| 8 | São Paulo | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 9 | Guadalajara | 🇲🇽 México | |
| 10 | Belo Horizonte | 🇧🇷 Brazil |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a White Angled-Sulphur sighting in San José on a given day, based on 14 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 111th most-seen of the 239 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 20%, and over a week to about 30%, if each day is a fresh chance.
March and July–September
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report a White Angled-Sulphur in San José on a given day, against under 5% in April–June and October–February, the lowest months.
Between 11 am and 2 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most White Angled-Sulphur sightings with a recorded time, and about 8 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
7th of 13
Of the 13 cities where we can rate White Angled-Sulphur sightings, San José ranks 7th at about 10%. The best odds are in Santa Cruz de la Sierra (Bolivia, about 20%), Cali (Colombia, about 10%) and Salvador (Brazil, about 10%).
Same family: Pieridae
The closest relatives of the White Angled-Sulphur that you can see in San José (family Pieridae, Whites, Yellows, and Sulphurs) are Great Southern White (about 20%), Dark Apricot Sulphur (about 10%) and Cloudless Sulphur (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the White Angled-Sulphur is recorded against all the insects logged in San José (14 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.
