Burara oedipodea
In 3 days ~50% in a week ~80%
Burara oedipodea, the branded orange awlet, is a species of hesperid butterfly found in South Asia and Southeast Asia. The butterfly was reassigned to the genus Burara by Vane-Wright and de Jong (2003) and is considered by them to be Burara oedipodea.
The branded orange awlet is found in India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Malaysia, Java, Thailand and Vietnam. In India, the butterfly is found along the Himalayas from Mussoorie to Assam. The type locality is Java in Indonesia. The butterfly has a wingspan of 40 to 50 mm for subspecies ataphus found in Sri Lanka, and of 65 to 70 mm in subspecies excellens found in Sulawesi.
Edward Yerbury Watson (1891) gives a detailed description: Male. Upperside ochreous olive brown; forewing with an ochreous-red costal band which also extends across base of the cell; a large black basal patch below the cell. Cilia of forewing pale brownish grey, of hindwing ochreous-red.
Female. It differs above only in the absence of the basal black patch, and beneath it in the less prominent white posterior marginal band. Underside ochreous-brown: forewing with a paler ochreous subapical and a marginal fascia, and a broad whitish posterior... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cuc Phuong National Park | 🇻🇳 Vietnam |
More parks will be added in future updates.
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hong Kong | 🇨🇳 China |
Possible
About 20% of wildlife watchers report a Branded Orange Awlet sighting in Cuc Phuong National Park on a given day, based on 15 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 95th most-seen of the 126 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.
May
In that month about 50% of wildlife watchers report a Branded Orange Awlet in Cuc Phuong National Park on a given day, against under 5% in July–August and October–April, the lowest months.
Between 5 and 8 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Branded Orange Awlet sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Cuc Phuong National Park, in our data
Cuc Phuong National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Branded Orange Awlet sightings: about 20% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same family: Hesperiidae
The closest relatives of the Branded Orange Awlet that you can see in Cuc Phuong National Park (family Hesperiidae, Skippers) are Chestnut Angle (about 20%), Fulvous Pied Flat (about 20%) and Pedesta rubella (about 20%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Branded Orange Awlet is recorded against all the insects logged in Cuc Phuong National Park (15 verified sightings from 2019 to 2026), 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.
