Hasora taminatus
In 3 days ~10% in a week ~20%
Hasora taminatus, the white banded awl, is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae, which is found in Asia. The butterfly is found in Sri Lanka, India, Myanmar, Cambodia Thailand, Laos, Hainan, Hong Kong, western China, Malaysia, the Indonesian archipelago (Borneo, Sumatra, Java, Nias, Sumbawa and Bali), the Philippines and Sulawesi.
In India the butterfly is found in South India, where it occurs in the Western Ghats, Kodagu, Nilgiri mountains and Palni hills; and in the Himalayas from Mussoorie eastwards to Sikkim and through to Myanmar. It is also found in the Andaman Islands and Nicobar Islands.
The type locality is South India. William Harry Evans (1932) reports that it is common in South India and not rare elsewhere. The butterfly, which has a wingspan of 45 to 55 mm, is dark brown and unmarked above; and resembles the common banded awl (Hasora chromus), except that it has a broad white band on the under hindwing which is sharply defined. The female white banded awl has small spots on the upper forewing while the male has no brand above.
Edward Yerbury Watson (1891) gives detailed descriptions of H... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kaeng Krachan National Park | 🇹🇭 Thailand |
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| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Singapore | 🇸🇬 Singapore |
Rare
Under 5% of wildlife watchers report a White Banded Awl sighting in Singapore on a given day, based on 10 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 735th most-seen of the 1045 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 10%, and over a week to about 20%, if each day is a fresh chance.
Any time of year
In every month with enough records, under 5% of wildlife watchers report a White Banded Awl in Singapore on a given day, so our monthly data shows no clear season.
Between 8 and 11 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most White Banded Awl sightings with a recorded time, and nearly all of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Singapore, in our data
Singapore is the only city on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate White Banded Awl sightings: under 5% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same genus: Hasora
The closest relatives of the White Banded Awl that you can see in Singapore (genus Hasora) are Yellow Banded Awl (about 10%) and Common Awl (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the White Banded Awl is recorded against all the insects logged in Singapore (10 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.
