Neptis clinia
In 3 days ~20% in a week ~40%
Neptis clinia, the southern sullied sailer or clear sailer, is a species of nymphalid butterfly found in South Asia and Southeast Asia. Male and female. Upper side, ground colour rich ferruginous-red, the basal area slightly tinged with olivescent yellowish-ferruginous. Cilia alternately black and white. Forewing with three black slender bars crossing the cell, and three similar bars below the cell between the basal interspaces of the middle and lower medians; beyond the cell is a large outwardly-oblique pure bluish-white more or less triangulate spot followed by a transverse discal macular band, broadest in the dry-season brood, composed of a series of large broad pure bluish-white spots proceeding from the costa to the posterior margin, of which the upper five are subapical and disposed obliquely outward, the third and fourth being ovate, the upper two very slender and divided by the second subcostal branch, the fifth much the smallest; the next four are disposed somewhat obliquely inward and are much larger, the sixth (or upper) triangularly ovate, the seventh longest and bluntly ovate or somewhat quadrate, the eighth quadrate with its outer edge indented, and... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kaeng Krachan National Park | 🇹🇭 Thailand |
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With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Southern Sullied Sailer sighting in Kaeng Krachan National Park on a given day, based on 7 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 194th 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 40%, if each day is a fresh chance.
January
In that month about 20% of wildlife watchers report a Southern Sullied Sailer in Kaeng Krachan National Park on a given day, against under 5% in February–April and July–December, the lowest months. That is one of Kaeng Krachan National Park's driest months, with about 35 mm of rain against 260 mm in September.
Between 10 am and 1 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Southern Sullied Sailer 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 Southern Sullied Sailer sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same genus: Neptis
The closest relatives of the Southern Sullied Sailer that you can see in Kaeng Krachan National Park (genus Neptis, Typical Sailers) are Common Sailer (about 10%) and Chocolate Sailer (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Southern Sullied Sailer is recorded against all the insects logged in Kaeng Krachan National Park (7 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.
