Byblia anvatara

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

Common joker
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
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]

Larvae 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, Eswatini, 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