Lycorea ilione
In 3 days ~20% in a week ~40%
Lycorea ilione, the clearwing mimic queen is a species of nymphalid butterfly in the subfamily Danainae. The species was first described by Pieter Cramer in 1775. Lycorea ilione phenarete (Doubleday, 1847); present in Bolivia and Peru This species is present in Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia, Ecuador, Brazil, Bolivia and Peru. It occurs in the transitional rainforest and cloudforest, at an elevation of 500–1,500 metres (1,600–4,900 ft) above sea level.
Lycorea ilione can reach a wingspan of about 10 cm (3.9 in). It is an extremely variable species. These large and strongly marked butterflies show yellow-tipped antennae and black thorax with white dots and gray abdomen. All wings are rounded, with forewings much longer than the hindwings and with concave inner edge. The wings are transparent... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve | 🇨🇷 Costa Rica |
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With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Clearwing Mimic-Queen sighting in Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve on a given day, based on 14 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 215th most-seen of the 506 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.
March, May–September and November
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Clearwing Mimic-Queen in Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve on a given day, against under 5% in April, October and December–February, the lowest months.
Between 10 am and 1 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Clearwing Mimic-Queen 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 Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve, in our data
Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Clearwing Mimic-Queen sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same genus: Lycorea
The closest relatives of the Clearwing Mimic-Queen that you can see in Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve (genus Lycorea) are Tiger Mimic-Queen (about 10%) and Lycorea eva (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Clearwing Mimic-Queen is recorded against all the insects logged in Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve (14 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.
