Catopsilia pyranthe
In 3 days ~40% in a week ~70%
Catopsilia pyranthe, the mottled emigrant, is a medium-sized butterfly of the family Pieridae found in south Asia, southeast Asia, and parts of Australia. The upperside is chalky white, slightly tinted in some specimens with green. The forewing is with or without a discocellular black spot, that varies in size; costa and termen sometimes without a black margin; occasionally the costa has its apical third narrowly black, broadened slightly at the apex with black spots between the anterior veins; or again, the costa may be narrowly black, the apex very broadly so, and this colour continued down the termen but narrowed posteriorly. The hindwing is sometimes immaculate, but generally with narrow terminal black spots at the apices of the veins, these often reduced to mere dots, or again so broadened as to coalesce into a narrow terminal black margin.
The underside's ground colour is similar, suffused on the anterior half of the forewing and over the whole surface of the hindwing with a greenish tint that varies to an ochraceous yellow, and, except in the very palest specimens, is evenly irrorated (sprinkled) over the greenish or ochraceous-tinted areas with transverse... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Keoladeo National Park | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 2 | Yala National Park | 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Salem | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 2 | Prayagraj | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 3 | Jamshedpur | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 4 | Karachi | 🇵🇰 Pakistan | |
| 5 | Vadodara | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 6 | Berhampore | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 7 | Chennai | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 8 | Jabalpur | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 9 | Raipur | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 10 | Hyderabad | 🇮🇳 India |
Possible
About 20% of wildlife watchers report a Mottled Emigrant sighting in Tuen Mun on a given day, based on 78 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 67th most-seen of the 557 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 40%, and over a week to about 70%, if each day is a fresh chance.
September
In that month about 30% of wildlife watchers report a Mottled Emigrant in Tuen Mun on a given day, against under 5% in December and January, the lowest months. That is one of Tuen Mun's wettest months, with about 170 mm of rain against 20 mm in December.
Between 9 am and noon
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Mottled Emigrant sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
18th of 39
Of the 39 cities where we can rate Mottled Emigrant sightings, Tuen Mun ranks 18th at about 20%. The best odds are in Salem (India, about 50%), Prayagraj (India, about 50%) and Jamshedpur (India, about 40%).
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Mottled Emigrant is recorded against all the insects logged in Tuen Mun (78 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.
