Mycalesis anaxias
In 3 days ~30% in a week ~50%
Mycalesis anaxias, the white-bar bushbrown, is a species of satyrid butterfly found in South and Southeast Asia. In South Asia, it inhabits Sikkim, eastwards through the hill-ranges to Assam, Cachar, Myanmar and Tenasserim. Also in southern India, in the Nilgiris and Travancore.
Wet-season form: male and female: Upperside dull Vandyke brown, paler in the female; subterminal and terminal fine lines on both forewings and hindwings fulvescent (tawny): cilia brown. Forewing with an oblique white preapical short band not quite reaching either the costa or the termen. Underside: forewing: basal area up to the white band, and in a transverse line from lower end of band to dorsum, blackish brown; terminal margin beyond broadly paler brown; a white-centred fulvous-ringed black ocellus in interspace 2, and two preapical, smaller similar ocelli, followed by a very sinuous subterminal and a straighter terminal dark brown line. Hindwing: basal two-thirds blackish brown, terminal border broadly paler, bearing normally seven ocelli similar to those on the forewing, and subterminal and terminal dark brown lines.
Dry-season form: Upperside as in the wet-season form. Underside differs... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Periyar National Park | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 2 | Khao Yai National Park | 🇹🇭 Thailand |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a White-Bar Bushbrown sighting in Khao Yai National Park on a given day, based on 8 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 104th most-seen of the 221 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 30%, and over a week to about 50%, if each day is a fresh chance.
April, August and December
In those months about 20% of wildlife watchers report a White-Bar Bushbrown in Khao Yai National Park on a given day, against under 5% in March, May–July and September–October, the lowest months.
Between 11 am and 2 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most White-Bar Bushbrown sightings with a recorded time, and nearly all of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
2nd of 2
Of the 2 parks where we can rate White-Bar Bushbrown sightings, Khao Yai National Park ranks 2nd at about 10%. The best odds are in Periyar National Park (India, about 20%).
Same family: Nymphalidae
The closest relatives of the White-Bar Bushbrown that you can see in Khao Yai National Park (family Nymphalidae, Brush-footed Butterflies) are Magpie Crow Butterfly (about 40%), Dark Blue Tiger (about 30%) and Commander (about 30%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the White-Bar Bushbrown is recorded against all the insects logged in Khao Yai National Park (8 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.
