Byblia anvatara

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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

The Common Joker (Byblia anvatara) is a butterfly of the Nymphalidae family, found in Subsaharan Africa.[1]

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 Dalechamoia 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 Province, Mpumalanga, North West Province, KwaZulu-Natal, Eastern Cape Province)
  • B. a. anvatara (Boisduval, 1833) (Madagascar, Comoros)
  • B. a. boydi Dixey, 1898 (Socotra)
  • B. a. crameri Aurivillius, 1894 (eastern Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bisaau, Burkina Faso, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria: south and the Cross River loop, Cameroon to Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, Tanzania: north-west to the Kagera Region)

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Byblia, funet.fi
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Woodhall, Steve. Field Guide to Butterflies of South Africa, Cape Town:Struik Publishers, 2005.


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