Mycalesis terminus
In 3 days ~80% in a week >90%
Mycalesis terminus, the orange bushbrown, is a species of butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Indonesia (Irian Jaya, Maluku), New Guinea and Australia (Queensland). Mycalesis terminus terminus (Cape York to Yeppoon)
Mycalesis terminus matho Grose-Smith, 1894 (Bismarck Archipelago) Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Daintree National Park | 🇦🇺 Australia |
More parks will be added in future updates.
Likely
About 40% of wildlife watchers report an Orange Bushbrown sighting in Daintree National Park on a given day, based on 201 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 6th most-seen of the 856 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 80%, and over a week to over 90%, if each day is a fresh chance.
July and August
In those months about 50% of wildlife watchers report an Orange Bushbrown in Daintree National Park on a given day, against about 30% in February–March and December, the lowest months. Those are among Daintree National Park's driest months, with about 60 mm of rain a month against 380 mm in January.
Between 10 am and 1 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Orange Bushbrown 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 Daintree National Park, in our data
Daintree National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Orange Bushbrown sightings: about 40% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same genus: Mycalesis
The closest relatives of the Orange Bushbrown that you can see in Daintree National Park (genus Mycalesis, Bushbrowns) are Dingy Bushbrown (about 20%) and Cedar Bushbrown (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Orange Bushbrown is recorded against all the insects logged in Daintree National Park (201 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.
