Tisiphone abeona
In 3 days ~50% in a week ~80%
Tisiphone abeona, the swordgrass brown, is a nymphalid butterfly. It is endemic to Australia. The wings of the adult are brown and have a wingspan of about 60 mm. Australian Caterpillars "Tisiphone Hübner, [1819]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Booderee National Park | 🇦🇺 Australia | |
| 2 | Blue Mountains National Park | 🇦🇺 Australia | |
| 3 | Wilsons Promontory National Park | 🇦🇺 Australia | |
| 4 | Royal National Park | 🇦🇺 Australia | |
| 5 | Great Otway National Park | 🇦🇺 Australia | |
| 6 | Grampians National Park | 🇦🇺 Australia |
Possible
About 20% of wildlife watchers report a Swordgrass Brown sighting in Great Otway National Park on a given day, based on 80 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 8th most-seen of the 418 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.
January and February
In those months about 40% of wildlife watchers report a Swordgrass Brown in Great Otway National Park on a given day, against under 5% in May to September, the lowest months.
Between 10 am and 1 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Swordgrass Brown sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
5th of 6
Of the 6 parks where we can rate Swordgrass Brown sightings, Great Otway National Park ranks 5th at about 20%. The best odds are in Booderee National Park (Australia, about 40%), Blue Mountains National Park (Australia, about 40%) and Wilsons Promontory National Park (Australia, about 30%).
Same family: Nymphalidae
The closest relatives of the Swordgrass Brown that you can see in Great Otway National Park (family Nymphalidae, Brush-footed Butterflies) are Common Brown (about 30%), Australian Painted Lady (about 30%) and Klug's Xenica (about 20%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Swordgrass Brown is recorded against all the insects logged in Great Otway National Park (80 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.
