Byblia anvatara, the common joker, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae, found in Sub-Saharan Africa.[1]
Common joker | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Nymphalidae |
Genus: | Byblia |
Species: | B. anvatara
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Binomial name | |
Byblia anvatara (Boisduval, 1833)
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Synonyms | |
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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
editListed 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
References
editExternal links
edit- Bode, J. (2012), Pirate & Joker Sap Sucking, feeding on sugary sap of Ziziphus mucronata tree, YouTube video