Dingy Bushbrown

Dingy Bushbrown

Mycalesis perseus

Daily sighting probability ~10% · With luck
at Singapore

In 3 days ~20% in a week ~40%

151 Verified sightings at Singapore
70 In all 2 parks From 2019 to 2026
June Best month
☀️ Diurnal When it's spotted

About the Dingy Bushbrown

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 →

Global Distribution

Parks Where Found

# Park Country Daily sighting probability
1 Litchfield National Park 🇦🇺 Australia
~40%
2 Daintree National Park 🇦🇺 Australia
~20%

Cities Where Found

# City Country Daily sighting probability
1 Salem 🇮🇳 India
~20%
2 Yogyakarta 🇮🇩 Indonesia
~10%
3 Mysuru 🇮🇳 India
~10%
4 Singapore 🇸🇬 Singapore
~10%
5 Bengaluru 🇮🇳 India
~10%
6 Jakarta 🇮🇩 Indonesia
~10%
7 Chennai 🇮🇳 India
~10%
8 Kuala Lumpur 🇲🇾 Malaysia
<5%

Before you go

What are the chances of seeing a Dingy Bushbrown in Singapore?

With luck

About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Dingy Bushbrown sighting in Singapore on a given day, based on 151 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 178th 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 40%, if each day is a fresh chance.

When is the best time to see a Dingy Bushbrown in Singapore?

April to February

In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Dingy Bushbrown in Singapore on a given day, against under 5% in March, the lowest month.

What time of day is best to see a Dingy Bushbrown?

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.

Is Singapore the best place to see a Dingy Bushbrown?

4th of 8

Of the 8 cities where we can rate Dingy Bushbrown sightings, Singapore ranks 4th at about 10%. The best odds are in Salem (India, about 20%), Yogyakarta (Indonesia, about 10%) and Mysuru (India, about 10%).

Where does the Dingy Bushbrown sighting chance come from?

GBIF citizen-science records

It is estimated from how often the Dingy Bushbrown is recorded against all the insects logged in Singapore (151 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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