Rathinda amor
In 3 days ~50% in a week ~80%
Rathinda is a butterfly genus in the family Lycaenidae. It consists of a single species, Rathinda amor, the monkey puzzle, found in Sri Lanka and India. Male. Upperside brownish-black with a violet-tint. Forewing with a white spot (sometimes slightly ochreous) beyond the end of the cell, with two smaller spots in an outwardly oblique row from it. Hindwiag with two black lunular spots between the tails and indications of a third black spot in the next upper interspace, all three capped with orange, with a fine blue thread on their outer sides; tails black, tipped with white. Cilia blackish, with white tips. Underside white, sometimes tinged with yellow; the markings pale chocolate. Forewing with the apical third chocolate, its inner edge in an even curve from the middle of the costa to the hinder margin near the angle, containing a sub-marginal series of small black lunules inwardly edged with white; the middle portion of the white space with some chocolate suffusion, a thin linear mark near the hinder angle, two short streaks from the base followed by three or four small spots. Hindwing with a lunulated, outwardly curved discal line, the inner wing space covered with... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
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| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
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| 1 | Kochi | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 2 | Ponnani | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 3 | Kozhikode | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 4 | Thiruvananthapuram | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 5 | Kollam | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 6 | Colombo [Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte] | 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka | |
| 7 | Kolkata | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 8 | Mumbai | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 9 | Chennai | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 10 | Hyderabad | 🇮🇳 India |
Possible
About 20% of wildlife watchers report a Monkey Puzzle sighting in Thiruvananthapuram on a given day, based on 10 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 45th most-seen of the 112 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 50%, and over a week to about 80%, if each day is a fresh chance.
November
In that month about 60% of wildlife watchers report a Monkey Puzzle in Thiruvananthapuram on a given day, against under 5% in March–May, July, October and December–January, the lowest months. That is one of Thiruvananthapuram's wettest months, with about 220 mm of rain against 15 mm in January.
Among the best
Of the 12 cities where we can rate Monkey Puzzle sightings, Thiruvananthapuram ranks 4th at about 20%, level with the leaders once rounded. The best odds are in Kochi (India, about 20%), Ponnani (India, about 20%) and Kozhikode (India, about 20%).
Same family: Lycaenidae
The closest relatives of the Monkey Puzzle that you can see in Thiruvananthapuram (family Lycaenidae, Gossamer-winged Butterflies) are Common Pierrot (about 30%), Common Cerulean (about 30%) and Dull Oak-Blue (about 20%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Monkey Puzzle is recorded against all the insects logged in Thiruvananthapuram (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.
