Polyura eudamippus
In 3 days ~30% in a week ~60%
Polyura eudamippus, the great nawab, is a butterfly found in India and the Indomalayan realm that belongs to the rajahs and nawabs group (subfamily Charaxinae) of the brush-footed butterflies (family Nymphalidae). Forewing has the costal margin, the anterior part of the cell, a transverse bar at its apex, joining a broad line at base of interspace 3, and the whole apical half of the wing purplish black; the black area narrows posteriorly, extends to the tornus and bears the following... 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 | Taipei | 🇹🇼 Taiwan |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Great Nawab sighting in Kaeng Krachan National Park on a given day, based on 18 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 88th most-seen of the 296 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 30%, and over a week to about 60%, if each day is a fresh chance.
February–March, May and August
In those months about 20% of wildlife watchers report a Great Nawab in Kaeng Krachan National Park on a given day, against under 5% in April, July and September–January, the lowest months.
Between noon and 3 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Great Nawab sightings with a recorded time, and about 8 in 10 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 Great Nawab sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same genus: Polyura
The closest relatives of the Great Nawab that you can see in Kaeng Krachan National Park (genus Polyura, Nawab Butterflies) are Common Nawab (about 20%) and Jewelled Nawab (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Great Nawab is recorded against all the insects logged in Kaeng Krachan National Park (18 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.
