Byblia anvatara

Byblia anvatara, the common joker, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae, found in Sub-Saharan Africa.[1]

Common joker
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Byblia
Species:
B. anvatara
Binomial name
Byblia anvatara
(Boisduval, 1833)
Synonyms
  • Hypanis vulgaris Staudinger, 1886
  • Byblia anvatara anvatara f. seriata Rothschild and Jordan, 1903
  • Hypanis acheloia Wallengren, 1857
  • Hypanis castanea Butler, 1886
  • Hypanis ilithyia var. vulgaris Staudinger, 1886
  • Byblia acheloia vulgaris ab. albitrimacula Strand, 1911
  • Byblia acheloia ab. holobrunnea Vári, 1976
  • Byblia acheloia acheloia f. similata van Son, 1979
  • Byblia boydi Dixey, 1898
  • Byblia ilithyia var. crameri Aurivillius, 1894
  • Byblia anvatara crameri f. fasciata Rothschild and Jordan, 1903
  • Byblia acheloia ab. infuscata Schultze, 1920
  • Byblia acheloia crameri f. nigrifusa Joicey and Talbot, 1921
  • Byblia acheloia f. greenawayi Stoneham, 1965

Wingspan: 38–43 mm in males and 40–45 mm in females. Its flight period is year round.[2]

Larva feed on Tragia glabrata and Dalechampia capensis.[2]

Subspecies

Listed alphabetically:[1]

  • B. a. acheloia (Wallengren, 1857) – Yemen, south-western Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, eastern Tanzania, Zambia, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana, northern Namibia, Swaziland, South Africa: Limpopo, Mpumalanga, North West, KwaZulu-Natal, Eastern Cape
  • B. a. anvatara (Boisduval, 1833) – Madagascar, Comoros
  • B. a. boydi Dixey, 1898 – Socotra
  • B. a. crameri Aurivillius, 1894 – eastern Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Burkina Faso, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria: south and the Cross River loop, Cameroon to Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Tanzania: north-west to the Kagera Region

References
  1. Byblia at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. Woodhall, Steve (2005). Field Guide to Butterflies of South Africa. Cape Town, South Africa: Struik. ISBN 978-1-86872-724-7.


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