Common Line Blue

Common Line Blue

Prosotas nora

Daily sighting probability ~10% · With luck
at Singapore

In 3 days ~20% in a week ~50%

213 Verified sightings at Singapore
102 In all 9 parks From 2019 to 2026
April Best month
☀️ Diurnal When it's spotted

About the Common Line Blue

Prosotas nora, the common lineblue, is a species of lycaenid butterfly found in Asia to Australia. The species was first described by Rudolf Felder in 1860. Male upperside: purplish brown or purplish with a dark tint, some specimens brown with a very slight purplish sheen seen only in certain lights. Forewings and hindwings: nearly uniform, both with slender black anteciliary lines, the hindwing in addition with the costal and dorsal margins paler; in most specimens with a subterminal black spot in interspace 2, sometimes seen only by transparency from the underside; tail black tipped with white. Underside: brown, hoary, brownish or pale dull brown. Forewing: a subbasal pair of transverse white strigae, a shorter pair along the discocellulars and a discal pair; these strigae all narrowly edged on the inner sides of each pair with fuscous which gives the appearance of transverse bands somewhat darker than the ground colour; the subbasal pair extend from vein 1 to vein 12, the discocellular pair from upper to lower apex of cell and the discal pair are very irregular and dislocated at each vein, the whole having the appearance of a dark sinuous band; terminal markings... Wikipedia →

Global Distribution

Parks Where Found

# Park Country Daily sighting probability
1 Namdapha National Park 🇮🇳 India
~40%
2 Cuc Phuong National Park 🇻🇳 Vietnam
~30%
3 Sinharaja Forest Reserve 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka
~20%
4 Taroko National Park 🇹🇼 Taiwan
~20%
5 Taman Negara National Park 🇲🇾 Malaysia
~10%
6 Gunung Leuser National Park 🇮🇩 Indonesia
~10%
7 Kaeng Krachan National Park 🇹🇭 Thailand
~10%
8 Khao Yai National Park 🇹🇭 Thailand
~10%
9 Kinabalu Park 🇲🇾 Malaysia
~10%

Cities Where Found

# City Country Daily sighting probability
1 Chattogram 🇧🇩 Bangladesh
~20%
2 Jabalpur 🇮🇳 India
~20%
3 Taichung 🇹🇼 Taiwan
~10%
4 Salem 🇮🇳 India
~10%
5 Hyderabad 🇮🇳 India
~10%
6 Bengaluru 🇮🇳 India
~10%
7 Pune 🇮🇳 India
~10%
8 Jakarta 🇮🇩 Indonesia
~10%
9 Mumbai 🇮🇳 India
~10%
10 Singapore 🇸🇬 Singapore
~10%

Before you go

What are the chances of seeing a Common Line Blue in Singapore?

With luck

About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Common Line Blue sighting in Singapore on a given day, based on 213 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 133rd most-seen of the 1045 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 20%, and over a week to about 50%, if each day is a fresh chance.

When is the best time to see a Common Line Blue in Singapore?

Any time of year

In every month with enough records, about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Common Line Blue in Singapore on a given day, so our monthly data shows no clear season.

What time of day is best to see a Common Line Blue?

Between 11 am and 2 pm

Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Common Line Blue sightings with a recorded time, and about 8 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.

Is Singapore the best place to see a Common Line Blue?

10th of 18

Of the 18 cities where we can rate Common Line Blue sightings, Singapore ranks 10th at about 10%. The best odds are in Chattogram (Bangladesh, about 20%), Jabalpur (India, about 20%) and Taichung (Taiwan, about 10%).

Where does the Common Line Blue sighting chance come from?

GBIF citizen-science records

It is estimated from how often the Common Line Blue is recorded against all the insects logged in Singapore (213 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.

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