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In 3 days ~20% in a week ~50%
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Doi Inthanon National Park | 🇹🇭 Thailand | |
| 2 | Taroko National Park | 🇹🇼 Taiwan |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taipei | 🇹🇼 Taiwan |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Restricted Purple Sapphire sighting in Taipei on a given day, based on 82 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 143rd most-seen of the 765 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.
February–July and November
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Restricted Purple Sapphire in Taipei on a given day, against under 5% in August–October and December–January, the lowest months.
Between 10 am and 1 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Restricted Purple Sapphire sightings with a recorded time, and nearly all of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Taipei, in our data
Taipei is the only city on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Restricted Purple Sapphire sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same family: Lycaenidae
The closest relatives of the Restricted Purple Sapphire that you can see in Taipei (family Lycaenidae, Gossamer-winged Butterflies) are Pale Grass Blue (about 20%), Metallic Cerulean (about 20%) and Dark Cerulean (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Restricted Purple Sapphire is recorded against all the insects logged in Taipei (82 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.
