Lexias dirtea
In 3 days ~30% in a week ~60%
Lexias dirtea, the archduke, is a species of butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kinabalu Park | 🇲🇾 Malaysia | |
| 2 | Gunung Leuser National Park | 🇮🇩 Indonesia | |
| 3 | Khao Sok National Park | 🇹🇭 Thailand | |
| 4 | Sepilok | 🇲🇾 Malaysia | |
| 5 | Kaeng Krachan National Park | 🇹🇭 Thailand |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Singapore | 🇸🇬 Singapore |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Black-Tipped Archduke sighting in Sepilok on a given day, based on 9 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 48th most-seen of the 87 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.
March–April and July
In those months about 20% of wildlife watchers report a Black-Tipped Archduke in Sepilok on a given day, against under 5% in May and September–February, the lowest months.
Between 10 am and 1 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Black-Tipped Archduke 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 5
Of the 5 parks where we can rate Black-Tipped Archduke sightings, Sepilok ranks 4th at about 10%. The best odds are in Kinabalu Park (Malaysia, about 30%), Gunung Leuser National Park (Indonesia, about 20%) and Khao Sok National Park (Thailand, about 10%).
Same family: Nymphalidae
The closest relatives of the Black-Tipped Archduke that you can see in Sepilok (family Nymphalidae, Brush-footed Butterflies) are Clipper (about 40%), Brown Pansy (about 30%) and Great Eggfly (about 30%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Black-Tipped Archduke is recorded against all the insects logged in Sepilok (9 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.
