Melete lycimnia
In 3 days ~40% in a week ~70%
Melete lycimnia, the common melwhite, primrose flag or lycimnia white flag, is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. It is found from Texas in the United States to Bolivia. The habitat consists of lowland rainforests. The wingspan is 52–56 mm (2.0–2.2 in). In all subspecies, females are more yellowish.
The larvae probably feed on Loranthaceae species. Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lago de Yojoa | 🇭🇳 Honduras |
More parks will be added in future updates.
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Caracas | 🇻🇪 Venezuela | |
| 2 | Belo Horizonte | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 3 | Medellín | 🇨🇴 Colombia | |
| 4 | São Paulo | 🇧🇷 Brazil |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Common Melwhite sighting in Lago de Yojoa on a given day, based on 9 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 47th most-seen of the 152 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 40%, and over a week to about 70%, if each day is a fresh chance.
January
In that month about 40% of wildlife watchers report a Common Melwhite in Lago de Yojoa on a given day, against under 5% in February–May and July–December, the lowest months.
Between 8 and 11 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Common Melwhite sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Lago de Yojoa, in our data
Lago de Yojoa is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Common Melwhite sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same family: Pieridae
The closest relatives of the Common Melwhite that you can see in Lago de Yojoa (family Pieridae, Whites, Yellows, and Sulphurs) are Great Southern White (about 20%), Tiger Mimic-White (about 20%) and Orange-Barred Sulphur (about 20%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Common Melwhite is recorded against all the insects logged in Lago de Yojoa (9 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.
