Melanitis leda
In 3 days ~20% in a week ~40%
Melanitis leda, the common evening brown, is a common species of butterfly found flying at dusk. The flight of this species is erratic. They are found in Africa, South Asia and South-east Asia extending to parts of Australia.
Wet-season form: Forewing: apex subacute; termen slightly angulated just below apex, or straight. Upperside brown. Forewing with two large subapical black spots, each with a smaller spot outwardly of pure white inwardly bordered by a ferruginous interrupted lunule; costal margin narrowly pale. Hindwing with a dark, white-centred, fulvous-ringed ocellus subterminally in interspace two, and the apical ocellus, sometimes also others of the ocelli, on the underside, showing through.
Underside paler, densely covered with transverse dark brown striae; a discal curved dark brown narrow band on forewing; a post-discal similar oblique band, followed by a series of ocelli: four on the forewing, that in interspace 8 the largest; six on the hindwing, the apical and subtornal the largest.
Dry-season form: Forewing: apex obtuse and more or less falcate; termen posterior to falcation straight or sinuous. Upperside: ground colour similar to that in the wet-season... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kanha National Park | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 2 | Cuc Phuong National Park | 🇻🇳 Vietnam | |
| 3 | Namdapha National Park | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 4 | Bandhavgarh National Park | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 5 | Daintree National Park | 🇦🇺 Australia | |
| 6 | Lamington National Park | 🇦🇺 Australia | |
| 7 | iSimangaliso Wetland Park | 🇿🇦 South Africa | |
| 8 | Noosa National Park | 🇦🇺 Australia | |
| 9 | Chitwan National Park | 🇳🇵 Nepal | |
| 10 | Minneriya National Park | 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka | |
| 11 | Litchfield National Park | 🇦🇺 Australia | |
| 12 | Springbrook National Park | 🇦🇺 Australia | |
| 13 | Khao Yai National Park | 🇹🇭 Thailand | |
| 14 | Kruger National Park | 🇿🇦 South Africa | |
| 15 | Doi Inthanon National Park | 🇹🇭 Thailand | |
| 16 | Kaeng Krachan National Park | 🇹🇭 Thailand |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ranchi | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 2 | Guwahati | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 3 | Dhaka | 🇧🇩 Bangladesh | |
| 4 | Kalyan-Dombivli | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 5 | Jabalpur | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 6 | Berhampore | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 7 | Visakhapatnam | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 8 | Jamshedpur | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 9 | Raipur | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 10 | Hyderabad | 🇮🇳 India |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Common Evening Brown sighting in Zhuhai [Macau] on a given day, based on 5 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 119th most-seen of the 152 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.
July and September
In those months about 20% of wildlife watchers report a Common Evening Brown in Zhuhai [Macau] on a given day, against under 5% in August and October–April, the lowest months. Those are among Zhuhai [Macau]'s wettest months, with about 190 mm of rain a month against 20 mm in December.
Between 9 am and noon
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Common Evening Brown sightings with a recorded time, and about 7 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
62nd of 66
Of the 66 cities where we can rate Common Evening Brown sightings, Zhuhai [Macau] ranks 62nd at about 10%. The best odds are in Ranchi (India, about 50%), Guwahati (India, about 40%) and Dhaka (Bangladesh, about 40%).
Same family: Nymphalidae
The closest relatives of the Common Evening Brown that you can see in Zhuhai [Macau] (family Nymphalidae, Brush-footed Butterflies) are Great Eggfly (about 10%), Lemon Pansy (about 10%) and Common Mapwing (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Common Evening Brown is recorded against all the insects logged in Zhuhai [Macau] (5 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.
