Cigaritis lohita
In 3 days ~80% in a week >90%
Cigaritis lohita, the long-banded silverline, is a species of lycaenid or blue butterfly. Male. Upperside blackish-brown tinted with violet-blue. Forewing sometimes with some of the bands of the underside visible through the wing, the violet-blue with some gloss in certain lights merging into the black costal and outer marginal borders. Hindwing with the blue colour more distinct and somewhat more glossy, covering the whole surface of the wing except the costal space and the abdominal fold which are broadly pale blackish-brown, outer marginal line black, a fairly large anal orange patch, a black spot in the anal lobe, a small one between the tails, each with some silvery scales; tails black, tipped with white. Cilia of both wings grey. Underside yellowish-white, bands very dark red, with more or less disconnected silvery lines inside them. Forewing with a sub-basal bar from the costa connected with a short streak from the base, another from the costa across the middle of the cell, both with some suffused blackish below them, an outwardly oblique bar from the costa across the end of the cell to the sub-median vein, with a small blackish narrow and inwardly bent short... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Namdapha National Park | 🇮🇳 India |
More parks will be added in future updates.
Likely
About 40% of wildlife watchers report a Long-Banded Silverline sighting in Namdapha National Park on a given day, based on 15 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 16th most-seen of the 71 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 80%, and over a week to over 90%, if each day is a fresh chance.
October
In that month about 70% of wildlife watchers report a Long-Banded Silverline in Namdapha National Park on a given day, against about 10% in January to March, the lowest months. June to August have too few records to rate.
Between 9 am and noon
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Long-Banded Silverline sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Namdapha National Park, in our data
Namdapha National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Long-Banded Silverline sightings: about 40% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same family: Lycaenidae
The closest relatives of the Long-Banded Silverline that you can see in Namdapha National Park (family Lycaenidae, Gossamer-winged Butterflies) are Elbowed Pierrot (about 60%), Fluffy Tit (about 50%) and Common Tit (about 50%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Long-Banded Silverline is recorded against all the insects logged in Namdapha National Park (15 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.
