Species of butterfly
| Common joker
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom:
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Animalia
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| Phylum:
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Arthropoda
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| Class:
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Insecta
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| Order:
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Lepidoptera
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| Family:
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Nymphalidae
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| Genus:
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Byblia
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| Species:
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B. anvatara
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| Binomial name
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Byblia anvatara
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| Synonyms
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- 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
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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]
Listed 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
- ^ a b Byblia at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- ^ a b Woodhall, Steve (2005). Field Guide to Butterflies of South Africa. Cape Town, South Africa: Struik. ISBN 978-1-86872-724-7.
