Byblia anvatara

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Common joker
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Byblia
Species:
B. anvatara
Binomial name
Byblia anvatara
(Boisduval, 1833)
Synonyms
  • Hypanis vulgarisStaudinger, 1886
  • Byblia anvatara anvatara f. seriataRothschild and Jordan, 1903
  • Hypanis acheloiaWallengren, 1857
  • Hypanis castaneaButler, 1886
  • Hypanis ilithyia var. vulgarisStaudinger, 1886
  • Byblia acheloia vulgaris ab. albitrimaculaStrand, 1911
  • Byblia acheloia ab. holobrunneaVári, 1976
  • Byblia acheloia acheloia f. similatavan Son, 1979
  • Byblia boydiDixey, 1898
  • Byblia ilithyia var. crameriAurivillius, 1894
  • Byblia anvatara crameri f. fasciataRothschild and Jordan, 1903
  • Byblia acheloia ab. infuscataSchultze, 1920
  • Byblia acheloia crameri f. nigrifusaJoicey and Talbot, 1921
  • Byblia acheloia f. greenawayiStoneham, 1965

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

Contents

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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References

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


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