Salamis anteva
In 3 days ~60% in a week ~90%
Salamis anteva is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found on Madagascar. The habitat consists of forests. It is a butterfly with a black body covered with orange-brown hair; claviform antennae; above the orange-colored, anterior wings edged with black integrating a bluish-whitish spot; posterior also orange and margins along the veins of the wing brown - black. The underside is gray - black and reminds of a dead leaf, which serves as camouflage; a whitish line runs through the wings of the posterior edge of the hindwing of the anterior edge of the forewing: between this "line" and the body, the wings are darker than between the "line" and the edges of the wings. Its wings are bent. Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mantadia National Park | 🇲🇬 Madagascar |
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Possible
About 30% of wildlife watchers report a Salamis anteva sighting in Mantadia National Park on a given day, based on 11 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 11th most-seen of the 24 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.
February
In that month about 50% of wildlife watchers report a Salamis anteva in Mantadia National Park on a given day, against under 5% in April–May, July–September and November, the lowest months. That is one of Mantadia National Park's wettest months, with about 290 mm of rain against 60 mm in September.
Between 11 am and 2 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Salamis anteva sightings with a recorded time, and nearly all of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Mantadia National Park, in our data
Mantadia National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Salamis anteva sightings: about 30% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Salamis anteva is recorded against all the insects logged in Mantadia National Park (11 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.
