Melanchroia chephise
In 3 days ~20% in a week ~40%
Melanchroia chephise, the white-tipped black or snowbush spanworm, is a moth of the family Geometridae. It is found from Florida and Texas, south to Paraguay. Strays have been recorded from Arizona, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Kansas and Illinois.
The wingspan is about 33 mm. Adults are on wing from September to December. Larvae feed on Phyllanthaceae species, including Breynia and Phyllanthus. Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Machalilla National Park | 🇪🇨 Ecuador | |
| 2 | Masaya Volcano National Park | 🇳🇮 Nicaragua | |
| 3 | Cumbres de Monterrey National Park | 🇲🇽 Mexico |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | San José | 🇨🇷 Costa Rica | |
| 2 | Bogota | 🇨🇴 Colombia | |
| 3 | San Salvador | 🇸🇻 El Salvador | |
| 4 | Guadalajara | 🇲🇽 México | |
| 5 | Guatemala City | 🇬🇹 Guatemala | |
| 6 | Medellín | 🇨🇴 Colombia | |
| 7 | Vitória | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 8 | Houston | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 9 | São Paulo | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 10 | Panama City | 🇵🇦 Panama |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a White-Tipped Black sighting in Vitória on a given day, based on 7 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 90th most-seen of the 129 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 20%, and over a week to about 40%, if each day is a fresh chance.
December
In that month about 20% of wildlife watchers report a White-Tipped Black in Vitória on a given day, against under 5% in January–March, August–September and November, the lowest months. That is one of Vitória's wettest months, with about 200 mm of rain against 45 mm in July.
Between 8 and 11 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most White-Tipped Black sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
7th of 14
Of the 14 cities where we can rate White-Tipped Black sightings, Vitória ranks 7th at about 10%. The best odds are in San José (Costa Rica, about 20%), Bogota (Colombia, about 10%) and San Salvador (El Salvador, about 10%).
Same order: Lepidoptera
The closest relatives of the White-Tipped Black that you can see in Vitória (order Lepidoptera, Butterflies and Moths) are Mexican Fritillary (about 20%), White Peacock (about 20%) and Great Southern White (about 20%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the White-Tipped Black is recorded against all the insects logged in Vitória (7 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.
