Discophora lepida
In 3 days ~40% in a week ~70%
Discophora lepida, the southern duffer, is a butterfly found in Sri Lanka and south India that belongs to the duffers group, that is, the Morphinae subfamily of the brush-footed butterflies family. This species resembles Discophora celinde, but in the male the ground colour on the upperside is dark velvety brown without any blue reflections; the forewing is crossed pre-apically by three obliquely-placed, comparatively large, pale-blue spots with an ill-defined series of three or four much smaller subterminal spots; in the female the markings, though similar to those in the female of D. celinde, are on the upperside of the forewing all pale blue, not yellow, and more numerous, larger, and better defined on the upperside of the hindwing. Underside. Male similar to that in male of D. celinde, but a more or less prominent diffuse subterminal band irrorated with lilac scales crosses both forewing and hindwing. Female similar to the female of D. celinde, but much paler.
Wingspan 80–104 mm. It is found in South India and Sri Lanka. In 1957, Mark Alexander Wynter-Blyth described the species as rare. "Cylindrical... 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 Southern Duffer sighting in Sinharaja Forest Reserve on a given day, based on 8 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.
September
In that month about 50% of wildlife watchers report a Southern Duffer in Sinharaja Forest Reserve on a given day, against under 5% in March–June and October–January, the lowest months.
Between 8 and 11 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Southern Duffer sightings with a recorded time, and nearly all of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Sinharaja Forest Reserve, in our data
Sinharaja Forest Reserve is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Southern Duffer sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same family: Nymphalidae
The closest relatives of the Southern Duffer 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 Southern Duffer is recorded against all the insects logged in Sinharaja Forest Reserve (8 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.
