Eudocima aurantia
In 3 days ~30% in a week ~60%
Eudocima aurantia, the fruit-sucking moth, is a moth of the family Erebidae. The species was first described by the British entomologist Frederic Moore in 1877. It is found across south-east Asia, from Sri-Lanka to northern Queensland, Australia. It is also present on the Andamans.
The wingspan is about 90–120 mm. Palpi with third joint long and spatulate at extremity. Forewings with produced apex to a rounded lobe. Head and thorax ferrous colored, with plum-color suffusion. Abdomen orange. Forewing ferrous with dark stria and slight purple bloom. The veins speckled with blue. Reniform green and indistinct. There is a dark line runs from apex to center of inner margin, sometimes with green patches beyond it. Hindwings orange with a large black lunule beyond lower angle of cell. A submarginal patch can be seen between veins 1 and 2. Ventral side orange. Forewings with black mark below angle of cell and beyond the cell between veins 3 and 5. Hindwings with lunule and patch of upperside.
Larva has pinkish grey dorsal surface suffused darker to a V-shaped yellow band. It has black spiracles and marbled white-ringed rufous-orange ocellate marks with three... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Daintree National Park | 🇦🇺 Australia | |
| 2 | Khao Yai National Park | 🇹🇭 Thailand |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Eudocima aurantia sighting in Daintree National Park on a given day, based on 19 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 173rd most-seen of the 856 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 30%, and over a week to about 60%, if each day is a fresh chance.
May
In that month about 30% of wildlife watchers report a Eudocima aurantia in Daintree National Park on a given day, against under 5% in August to February, the lowest months.
Between 8 and 11 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Eudocima aurantia sightings with a recorded time, and about 7 in 10 of them come between 6 pm and 6 am: it is most active around dawn and dusk.
Yes
Of the 2 parks where we can rate Eudocima aurantia sightings, Daintree National Park has the highest daily chance: about 10%. Next come Khao Yai National Park (Thailand, about 10%).
Same genus: Eudocima
The closest relatives of the Eudocima aurantia that you can see in Daintree National Park (genus Eudocima, Fruit-piercing Moths) are Eudocima iridescens (about 10%), Common Fruit-Piercing Moth (about 10%) and Eudocima jordani (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Eudocima aurantia is recorded against all the insects logged in Daintree National Park (19 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.
