Anteos menippe
In 3 days ~30% in a week ~50%
Anteos menippe, the great orange tip or orange-tipped angled-sulphur, is a neotropical butterfly of the family Pieridae. Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Manu National Park | 🇵🇪 Peru | |
| 2 | Tambopata National Reserve | 🇵🇪 Peru | |
| 3 | Tijuca National Park | 🇧🇷 Brazil |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Belém | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 2 | São Luís | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 3 | Recife | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 4 | João Pessoa | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 5 | Maceió | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 6 | Rio de Janeiro | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 7 | Niterói | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 8 | Vitória | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 9 | Belo Horizonte | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 10 | São Paulo | 🇧🇷 Brazil |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report an Orangetip Angled-Sulphur sighting in Vitória on a given day, based on 13 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 38th most-seen of the 129 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 30%, and over a week to about 50%, if each day is a fresh chance.
October
In that month about 20% of wildlife watchers report an Orangetip Angled-Sulphur in Vitória on a given day, against under 5% in January–February and June–September, the lowest months.
Between 10 am and 1 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Orangetip Angled-Sulphur sightings with a recorded time, and about 8 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
8th of 10
Of the 10 cities where we can rate Orangetip Angled-Sulphur sightings, Vitória ranks 8th at about 10%. The best odds are in Belém (Brazil, about 20%), São Luís (Brazil, about 20%) and Recife (Brazil, about 20%).
Same family: Pieridae
The closest relatives of the Orangetip Angled-Sulphur that you can see in Vitória (family Pieridae, Whites, Yellows, and Sulphurs) are Great Southern White (about 20%), Florida White (about 10%) and Felder's White (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Orangetip Angled-Sulphur is recorded against all the insects logged in Vitória (13 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.
