Lycorea cleobaea
In 3 days ~20% in a week ~40%
Lycorea halia cleobaea, the tropical milkweed butterfly, is a subspecies of Lycorea halia, also called the tropical milkweed butterfly, a nymphalid butterfly in the Danainae subfamily. It is endemic to the island of Hispaniola (Haiti and the Dominican Republic) in the Caribbean. Its habitat is the tropical rainforest. Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Los Haitises National Park | 🇩🇴 Dominican Republic | |
| 2 | Lago de Yojoa | 🇭🇳 Honduras | |
| 3 | Serra dos Órgãos National Park | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 4 | Manu National Park | 🇵🇪 Peru | |
| 5 | Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve | 🇨🇷 Costa Rica | |
| 6 | Corcovado National Park | 🇨🇷 Costa Rica | |
| 7 | Arenal Volcano National Park | 🇨🇷 Costa Rica | |
| 8 | Carara National Park | 🇨🇷 Costa Rica | |
| 9 | Iguaçu National Park | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 10 | Iguazú National Park | 🇦🇷 Argentina | |
| 11 | La Amistad International Park (Panama) | 🇵🇦 Panama | |
| 12 | Braulio Carrillo National Park | 🇨🇷 Costa Rica |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Santo Domingo | 🇩🇴 Dominican Republic | |
| 2 | Caracas | 🇻🇪 Venezuela | |
| 3 | Porto Alegre | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 4 | São Paulo | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 5 | San José | 🇨🇷 Costa Rica | |
| 6 | Belo Horizonte | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 7 | Mexico City | 🇲🇽 México |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Tiger Mimic-Queen sighting in Iguaçu National Park on a given day, based on 9 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 195th most-seen of the 279 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.
May
In that month about 20% of wildlife watchers report a Tiger Mimic-Queen in Iguaçu National Park on a given day, against under 5% in March–April, June–July and September–November, the lowest months.
Between 10 am and 1 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Tiger Mimic-Queen sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
9th of 12
Of the 12 parks where we can rate Tiger Mimic-Queen sightings, Iguaçu National Park ranks 9th at about 10%. The best odds are in Los Haitises National Park (Dominican Republic, about 40%), Lago de Yojoa (Honduras, about 20%) and Serra dos Órgãos National Park (Brazil, about 10%).
Same family: Nymphalidae
The closest relatives of the Tiger Mimic-Queen that you can see in Iguaçu National Park (family Nymphalidae, Brush-footed Butterflies) are Agathina Emperor (about 70%), Hydaspes Eighty-Eight (about 50%) and Orange Mapwing (about 40%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Tiger Mimic-Queen is recorded against all the insects logged in Iguaçu National Park (9 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.
