Colotis amata
In 3 days ~30% in a week ~60%
Colotis amata, the Small Salmon Arab, is a small butterfly in the family Pieridae. It is primarily found in South Asia in countries like India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Similar populations across Arabian Peninsula, Africa and Madagascar were earlier treated as being conspecific. However, based on later studies, they have been split and now regarded as a different species Colotis calais.
The male's upperside has a salmon-pink ground colour. The costa on the forewing is black and thickly overlaid with greyish or pinkish scales; a black spot at apex of cell, which may be large and quadrate or smaller and lunate; termen broadly black, with an enclosed double transverse series of spots of the ground colour the inner series consists of a large spot in interspace 1, two very small spots in interspaces 2 and 3, one in each, and four larger anterior spots placed in a curve; the spots in the outer series are variable in number, but generally there is one in each interspace, these are more or less linear in shape. Hindwing: a band on costal margin extended to just within the upper margin of the cell, covered with dense black specialized scales; this black band joined onto a... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Berenty Reserve | 🇲🇬 Madagascar | |
| 2 | Keoladeo National Park | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 3 | Liwonde National Park | 🇲🇼 Malawi | |
| 4 | Namib-Naukluft National Park | 🇳🇦 Namibia | |
| 5 | Etosha National Park | 🇳🇦 Namibia | |
| 6 | Kruger National Park | 🇿🇦 South Africa |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Surat | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 2 | Vasai-Virar | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 3 | Karachi | 🇵🇰 Pakistan | |
| 4 | Mumbai | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 5 | Coimbatore | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 6 | Ahmedabad | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 7 | Vadodara | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 8 | Dubai | 🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates | |
| 9 | Mysuru | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 10 | Salem | 🇮🇳 India |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Small Salmon Arab sighting in Namib-Naukluft National Park on a given day, based on 19 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 17th most-seen of the 60 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.
April, July and November–December
In those months about 20% of wildlife watchers report a Small Salmon Arab in Namib-Naukluft National Park on a given day, against under 5% in March, June and August–September, the lowest months.
Between 10 am and 1 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Small Salmon Arab sightings with a recorded time, and nearly all 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 Small Salmon Arab sightings, Namib-Naukluft National Park ranks 4th at about 10%. The best odds are in Berenty Reserve (Madagascar, about 50%), Keoladeo National Park (India, about 30%) and Liwonde National Park (Malawi, about 20%).
Same family: Pieridae
The closest relatives of the Small Salmon Arab that you can see in Namib-Naukluft National Park (family Pieridae, Whites, Yellows, and Sulphurs) are Pioneer White (about 20%), Plain Vagrant (about 10%) and African Migrant (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Small Salmon Arab is recorded against all the insects logged in Namib-Naukluft National Park (19 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.
