Byblia anvatara

Common joker
	Male B. a. acheloia, Tanzania
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Clade:	Pancrustacea
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;

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

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

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, 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

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

Bode, J. (2012), Pirate & Joker Sap Sucking, feeding on sugary sap of Ziziphus mucronata tree, YouTube video

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Common joker

Male B. a. acheloia, Tanzania
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Clade:	Pancrustacea
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