Euploea phaenareta
In 3 days ~40% in a week ~70%
Euploea phaenareta, the giant crow, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It was described by Johann Gottlieb Schaller in 1785. It is found in the Indomalayan realm and the Australasian realm. E. p. phaenareta (Ambon, Serang) Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sinharaja Forest Reserve | 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka |
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With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Large Crow Butterfly sighting in Sinharaja Forest Reserve on a given day, based on 7 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 65th most-seen of the 117 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 40%, and over a week to about 70%, if each day is a fresh chance.
July
In that month about 40% of wildlife watchers report a Large Crow Butterfly in Sinharaja Forest Reserve on a given day, against under 5% in February–March, June, August–October and December, the lowest months.
Between 6 and 9 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Large Crow Butterfly sightings with a recorded time, and about 7 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is most active around dawn and dusk.
Only Sinharaja Forest Reserve, in our data
Sinharaja Forest Reserve is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Large Crow Butterfly sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same family: Nymphalidae
The closest relatives of the Large Crow Butterfly that you can see in Sinharaja Forest Reserve (family Nymphalidae, Brush-footed Butterflies) are Glad-Eye Bushbrown (about 40%), Clipper (about 40%) and Ceylon Tree Nymph (about 30%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Large Crow Butterfly is recorded against all the insects logged in Sinharaja Forest Reserve (7 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.
