Junonia lavinia
In 3 days ~20% in a week ~40%
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | El Palmar National Park | 🇦🇷 Argentina | |
| 2 | El Impenetrable National Park | 🇦🇷 Argentina | |
| 3 | Iberá National Park | 🇦🇷 Argentina | |
| 4 | Main Ridge Forest Reserve | 🇹🇹 Trinidad and Tobago | |
| 5 | Machalilla National Park | 🇪🇨 Ecuador | |
| 6 | Everglades National Park | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 7 | Soberanía National Park | 🇵🇦 Panama | |
| 8 | Carara National Park | 🇨🇷 Costa Rica | |
| 9 | Iguazú National Park | 🇦🇷 Argentina | |
| 10 | Iguaçu National Park | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 11 | Parque Natural Metropolitano | 🇵🇦 Panama |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rosario | 🇦🇷 Argentina | |
| 2 | Buenos Aires | 🇦🇷 Argentina | |
| 3 | Montevideo | 🇺🇾 Uruguay | |
| 4 | Mendoza | 🇦🇷 Argentina | |
| 5 | Asuncion | 🇵🇾 Paraguay | |
| 6 | Cordoba | 🇦🇷 Argentina | |
| 7 | Lima | 🇵🇪 Peru | |
| 8 | Panama City | 🇵🇦 Panama | |
| 9 | San José | 🇨🇷 Costa Rica | |
| 10 | São Paulo | 🇧🇷 Brazil |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Junonia lavinia sighting in Iguazú National Park on a given day, based on 9 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 185th most-seen of the 306 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 Junonia lavinia in Iguazú National Park on a given day, against under 5% in March and September–January, the lowest months.
Between noon and 3 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Junonia lavinia 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 11
Of the 11 parks where we can rate Junonia lavinia sightings, Iguazú National Park ranks 9th at about 10%. The best odds are in El Palmar National Park (Argentina, about 30%), El Impenetrable National Park (Argentina, about 30%) and Iberá National Park (Argentina, about 20%).
Same family: Nymphalidae
The closest relatives of the Junonia lavinia that you can see in Iguazú National Park (family Nymphalidae, Brush-footed Butterflies) are Agathina Emperor (about 70%), Hydaspes Eighty-Eight (about 50%) and Orange Mapwing (about 50%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Junonia lavinia is recorded against all the insects logged in Iguazú 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.
