Heliconius hortense
In 3 days ~60% in a week ~90%
Heliconius hortense, the Mexican longwing, Mexican heliconian or mountain longwing, is a heliconiid butterfly. Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | La Tigra National Park | 🇭🇳 Honduras |
More parks will be added in future updates.
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Guatemala City | 🇬🇹 Guatemala |
Possible
About 20% of wildlife watchers report a Mexican Longwing sighting in La Tigra National Park on a given day, based on 6 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 5th most-seen of the 6 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 60%, and over a week to about 90%, if each day is a fresh chance.
November to February
In those months about 40% of wildlife watchers report a Mexican Longwing in La Tigra National Park on a given day, against under 5% in March, May–July and September–October, the lowest months. Those are among La Tigra National Park's driest months, with about 80 mm of rain a month against 260 mm in June.
Between 10 am and 1 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Mexican Longwing 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 La Tigra National Park, in our data
La Tigra National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Mexican Longwing sightings: about 20% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same family: Nymphalidae
The closest relatives of the Mexican Longwing that you can see in La Tigra National Park (family Nymphalidae, Brush-footed Butterflies) are Anna’s Eighty-Eight (about 40%) and Lamplight Actinote (about 30%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Mexican Longwing is recorded against all the insects logged in La Tigra National Park (6 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.
