Anteos clorinde
In 3 days ~30% in a week ~60%
Anteos clorinde, the white angled-sulphur or the ghost brimstone, is a butterfly of the family Pieridae. The species was originally described by Jean-Baptiste Godart in 1824. Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chapada Diamantina National Park | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 2 | Santa Rosa National Park | 🇨🇷 Costa Rica | |
| 3 | Rincón de la Vieja National Park | 🇨🇷 Costa Rica | |
| 4 | Lago de Yojoa | 🇭🇳 Honduras | |
| 5 | Biotopo Cerro Cahuí | 🇬🇹 Guatemala | |
| 6 | Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve | 🇨🇷 Costa Rica | |
| 7 | Tenorio Volcano National Park | 🇨🇷 Costa Rica | |
| 8 | Arenal Volcano National Park | 🇨🇷 Costa Rica |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Santa Cruz de la Sierra | 🇧🇴 Bolivia | |
| 2 | Cali | 🇨🇴 Colombia | |
| 3 | Salvador | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 4 | Medellín | 🇨🇴 Colombia | |
| 5 | Brasilia | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 6 | Campinas | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 7 | San José | 🇨🇷 Costa Rica | |
| 8 | São Paulo | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 9 | Guadalajara | 🇲🇽 México | |
| 10 | Belo Horizonte | 🇧🇷 Brazil |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a White Angled-Sulphur sighting in Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve on a given day, based on 36 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 68th most-seen of the 506 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 30%, and over a week to about 60%, if each day is a fresh chance.
July
In that month about 30% of wildlife watchers report a White Angled-Sulphur in Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve on a given day, against under 5% in October to December, the lowest months.
Between 11 am and 2 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most White Angled-Sulphur sightings with a recorded time, and about 8 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
6th of 8
Of the 8 parks where we can rate White Angled-Sulphur sightings, Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve ranks 6th at about 10%. The best odds are in Chapada Diamantina National Park (Brazil, about 20%), Santa Rosa National Park (Costa Rica, about 20%) and Rincón de la Vieja National Park (Costa Rica, about 20%).
Same family: Pieridae
The closest relatives of the White Angled-Sulphur that you can see in Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve (family Pieridae, Whites, Yellows, and Sulphurs) are Painted White (about 10%), Leptophobia caesia (about 10%) and Northern Surprising-White (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the White Angled-Sulphur is recorded against all the insects logged in Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve (36 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.
