Chilasa clytia
In 3 days ~20% in a week ~50%
Papilio clytia, the common mime, is a swallowtail butterfly found in south and southeast Asia. The butterfly belongs to the subgenus Chilasa, the black-bodied swallowtails. It serves as an excellent example of a Batesian mimic among the Indian butterflies.
Both males and females have the upperside velvety black or soft dark brown. Forewing: a subterminal series of outwardly truncate or emarginate white spots; the spot in interspace 4 shifted inwards out of line; those in interspaces 6, 7 and 8 oblique to the costa, the lowest and the upper two spots elongate; this is followed by a terminal series of smaller white spots, two in interspace 1, one above the outer, and two in interspaces 8; lastly, a single spot between the subterminal and terminal series.
Hindwing: a discal series of inwardly conical and outwardly emarginate, triangular, elongate white spots; a prominent tornal yellow spot broadly divided across the middle by a bar of the ground colour. The cilia touched with white in the interspaces; sometimes one or more of these specks on the cilia are broad and prominent and yellow in colour.
Underside: from soft pale brown to rich dark velvety brown... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kaeng Krachan National Park | 🇹🇭 Thailand |
More parks will be added in future updates.
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tamluk | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 2 | Kozhikode | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 3 | Thiruvananthapuram | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 4 | Kolkata | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 5 | Kochi | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 6 | Xiuying District | 🇨🇳 China | |
| 7 | Jabalpur | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 8 | Tuen Mun | 🇨🇳 China | |
| 9 | Dhaka | 🇧🇩 Bangladesh | |
| 10 | Guwahati | 🇮🇳 India |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Common Mime Swallowtail sighting in Kaeng Krachan National Park on a given day, based on 12 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 139th most-seen of the 296 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 20%, and over a week to about 50%, if each day is a fresh chance.
March
In that month about 20% of wildlife watchers report a Common Mime Swallowtail in Kaeng Krachan National Park on a given day, against under 5% in February and June–November, the lowest months. That is one of Kaeng Krachan National Park's driest months, with about 65 mm of rain against 260 mm in September.
Between 8 and 11 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Common Mime Swallowtail sightings with a recorded time, and nearly all of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Kaeng Krachan National Park, in our data
Kaeng Krachan National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Common Mime Swallowtail sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same family: Papilionidae
The closest relatives of the Common Mime Swallowtail that you can see in Kaeng Krachan National Park (family Papilionidae, Swallowtails and Parnassians) are Common Bluebottle (about 30%), Tailed Jay (about 30%) and Great Mormon Swallowtail (about 30%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Common Mime Swallowtail is recorded against all the insects logged in Kaeng Krachan National Park (12 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.
