Hypanartia dione
In 3 days ~20% in a week ~40%
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Los Quetzales National Park | 🇨🇷 Costa Rica | |
| 2 | Chirripó National Park | 🇨🇷 Costa Rica | |
| 3 | Volcán Barú National Park | 🇵🇦 Panama | |
| 4 | Tapantí-Macizo de la Muerte National Park | 🇨🇷 Costa Rica | |
| 5 | Los Nevados National Natural Park | 🇨🇴 Colombia | |
| 6 | La Amistad International Park (Panama) | 🇵🇦 Panama |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Medellín | 🇨🇴 Colombia |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Banded Mapwing sighting in Los Nevados National Natural Park on a given day, based on 5 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 21st most-seen of the 32 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.
May and August
In those months about 20% of wildlife watchers report a Banded Mapwing in Los Nevados National Natural Park on a given day, against under 5% in March–April, June–July, September and November–January, the lowest months.
Between 9 am and noon
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Banded Mapwing sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
5th of 6
Of the 6 parks where we can rate Banded Mapwing sightings, Los Nevados National Natural Park ranks 5th at about 10%. The best odds are in Los Quetzales National Park (Costa Rica, about 20%), Chirripó National Park (Costa Rica, about 10%) and Volcán Barú National Park (Panama, about 10%).
Same genus: Hypanartia
The closest relatives of the Banded Mapwing that you can see in Los Nevados National Natural Park (genus Hypanartia, Mapwings) are Hypanartia lindigii (about 10%) and Red Mapwing (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Banded Mapwing is recorded against all the insects logged in Los Nevados National Natural Park (5 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.
