Papilio palinurus
In 3 days ~30% in a week ~60%
Papilio palinurus, the emerald swallowtail, emerald peacock, or green-banded peacock, is a butterfly of the genus Papilio of the family Papilionidae. It is native to Southeast Asia, but is regularly kept in butterfly houses around the world.
Papilio palinurus has a wingspan reaching about 8–10 centimetres (3.1–3.9 in). The dorsal sides of the wings are covered by a powder of green scales and the background vary from dark greenish to black, with broad bright emerald green metallic bands. The undersides are black with orange, white and blue spots along the edges of hindwings, that show extended tails at the end.
Seitz- P. palinurus. Similar to P. buddha, the band of both wings narrower, the distal-marginal area of the forewing dusted with green, the hindwing with large green submarginal spots; the grey band of the forewing beneath is placed very close to the cell and is basally concave. The earlier stages are not known. The butterfly according to Martin flies in wooded country and is very shy and agile; it occasionally comes into gardens and is fond of feeding at the flowers of Ixora, Lantana, etc., it is also often found at damp places on the forest-paths. Hauxwell... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kinabatangan Wildlife Sanctuary | 🇲🇾 Malaysia |
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With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report an Emerald Peacock Swallowtail sighting in Kinabatangan Wildlife Sanctuary on a given day, based on 8 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 30th most-seen of the 57 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.
March
In that month about 30% of wildlife watchers report an Emerald Peacock Swallowtail in Kinabatangan Wildlife Sanctuary on a given day, against under 5% in May and August–February, the lowest months.
Between 5 and 8 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Emerald Peacock Swallowtail sightings with a recorded time, and about 7 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Kinabatangan Wildlife Sanctuary, in our data
Kinabatangan Wildlife Sanctuary is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Emerald Peacock Swallowtail sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same genus: Papilio
The closest relatives of the Emerald Peacock Swallowtail that you can see in Kinabatangan Wildlife Sanctuary (genus Papilio, Common Swallowtails) are Great Mormon Swallowtail (about 20%), Black-And-White Helen Swallowtail (about 20%) and Papilio tereas (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Emerald Peacock Swallowtail is recorded against all the insects logged in Kinabatangan Wildlife Sanctuary (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.
