Byblia anvatara, the common joker, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae, found in Sub-Saharan Africa.[1]
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]
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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
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B. a. anvatara (Boisduval, 1833) – Madagascar, Comoros
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B. a. boydi Dixey, 1898 – Socotra
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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
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^ a b Byblia at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
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^ a b Woodhall, Steve (2005). Field Guide to Butterflies of South Africa. Cape Town, South Africa: Struik. ISBN 978-1-86872-724-7.
