Byblia anvatara

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Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Nymphalidae Scientific name Byblia anvatara		Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Genus Byblia Rank Species

Similar Byblia, Eurytela dryope, Junonia goudotii, Eurytela, Colotis euippe

Common joker byblia anvatara

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

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

Larva feed on Tragia glabrata and Dalechampia capensis.

Subspecies

Listed alphabetically:

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

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Common joker byblia anvatara

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