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Arawacus melibaeus
In 3 days ~30% in a week ~60%
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Serra dos Órgãos National Park | 🇧🇷 Brazil |
More parks will be added in future updates.
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report an Arawacus melibaeus sighting in Serra dos Órgãos National Park on a given day, based on 5 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 83rd most-seen of the 117 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.
August
In that month about 30% of wildlife watchers report an Arawacus melibaeus in Serra dos Órgãos National Park on a given day, against under 5% in March–July, September and December–January, the lowest months. That is one of Serra dos Órgãos National Park's driest months, with about 100 mm of rain against 310 mm in November.
Between noon and 3 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Arawacus melibaeus sightings with a recorded time, and nearly all of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Serra dos Órgãos National Park, in our data
Serra dos Órgãos National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Arawacus melibaeus sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same family: Lycaenidae
The closest relatives of the Arawacus melibaeus that you can see in Serra dos Órgãos National Park (family Lycaenidae, Gossamer-winged Butterflies) are Pale-Clubbed Hairstreak (about 10%), Thecla celmus (about 10%) and Lycaena cyna (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Arawacus melibaeus is recorded against all the insects logged in Serra dos Órgãos National Park (5 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.
