Melanis pixe
In 3 days ~20% in a week ~30%
Melanis pixe, the red-bordered pixie, is a species in the butterfly family Riodinidae. It was described by Jean Baptiste Boisduval in 1836. Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rincón de la Vieja National Park | 🇨🇷 Costa Rica | |
| 2 | Biotopo Cerro Cahuí | 🇬🇹 Guatemala | |
| 3 | Cañón del Sumidero National Park | 🇲🇽 Mexico | |
| 4 | Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve | 🇨🇷 Costa Rica | |
| 5 | Parque Natural Metropolitano | 🇵🇦 Panama | |
| 6 | Soberanía National Park | 🇵🇦 Panama |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | San Pedro Sula | 🇭🇳 Honduras | |
| 2 | Tegucigalpa | 🇭🇳 Honduras | |
| 3 | San Salvador | 🇸🇻 El Salvador | |
| 4 | San José | 🇨🇷 Costa Rica | |
| 5 | Panama City | 🇵🇦 Panama |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Red-Bordered Pixie sighting in Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve on a given day, based on 10 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 239th 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 30%, if each day is a fresh chance.
March, May–July and December–January
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Red-Bordered Pixie in Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve on a given day, against under 5% in February, April and August–November, the lowest months.
Between 11 am and 2 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Red-Bordered Pixie sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
4th of 6
Of the 6 parks where we can rate Red-Bordered Pixie sightings, Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve ranks 4th at about 10%. The best odds are in Rincón de la Vieja National Park (Costa Rica, about 30%), Biotopo Cerro Cahuí (Guatemala, about 20%) and Cañón del Sumidero National Park (Mexico, about 10%).
Same order: Lepidoptera
The closest relatives of the Red-Bordered Pixie that you can see in Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve (order Lepidoptera, Butterflies and Moths) are Oxydia trychiata (about 40%), Common Morpho (about 30%) and Clysonymus Longwing (about 30%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Red-Bordered Pixie is recorded against all the insects logged in Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve (10 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.
