Ixias pyrene
In 3 days ~80% in a week >90%
Ixias pyrene, the yellow orange tip, is a small butterfly of the family Pieridae, that is, the yellows and whites, which is found in Sri Lanka, India and southeast Asia. The species wingspan is between 50 and 55 mm. Dry-season brood: Male upperside: deep sulphur-yellow. Forewing: base and basal half of costa thickly irrorated with black scales; apical half of the wing black, with an enclosed, large, irregularly triangular, orange-coloured patch, the apex of which is more or less broadly rounded and blunt; the orange colour extends into the apex of the cell but is interrupted there by a black discocellular spot that spreads diffusely inwards and joins the black oblique bar which forms the base of the orange patch; veins that traverse this latter, black. Hindwing: uniform with a little black scaling at extreme base; termen with a dusky-black somewhat narrow border (sometimes entirely absent) which decreases in width posteriorly.
Underside: a darker yellow, sparsely irrorated (sprinkled) with fusco-ferruginous short strigae and minute spots. Forewing: base and posterior area broadly, with a whitish pale virescent (greenish) tint; the strigae and minute spots most numerous... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Namdapha National Park | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 2 | Royal Manas National Park | 🇧🇹 Bhutan | |
| 3 | Cuc Phuong National Park | 🇻🇳 Vietnam | |
| 4 | Keoladeo National Park | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 5 | Cat Tien National Park | 🇻🇳 Vietnam | |
| 6 | Kaeng Krachan National Park | 🇹🇭 Thailand |
Likely
About 40% of wildlife watchers report a Yellow Orange Tip sighting in Royal Manas National Park on a given day, based on 25 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the most-seen of the 27 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.
April and November
In those months about 60% of wildlife watchers report a Yellow Orange Tip in Royal Manas National Park on a given day, against under 5% in March, the lowest month. Those are among Royal Manas National Park's driest months, with about 110 mm of rain a month against 930 mm in July. July to October have too few records to rate.
Between 9 am and noon
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Yellow Orange Tip sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
2nd of 6
Of the 6 parks where we can rate Yellow Orange Tip sightings, Royal Manas National Park ranks 2nd at about 40%. The best odds are in Namdapha National Park (India, about 50%). All parks ranked.
Same family: Pieridae
The closest relatives of the Yellow Orange Tip that you can see in Royal Manas National Park (family Pieridae, Whites, Yellows, and Sulphurs) are Lesser Gull (about 40%), Chocolate Albatross (about 40%) and Spotted Sawtooth (about 30%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Yellow Orange Tip is recorded against all the insects logged in Royal Manas National Park (25 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.
