''Byblia anvatara'', the common joker, is a

butterfly Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the Order (biology), order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. The ...

of the family

Nymphalidae The Nymphalidae are the largest family of butterflies, with more than 6,000 species distributed throughout most of the world. Belonging to the superfamily Papilionoidea, they are usually medium-sized to large butterflies. Most species have a red ...

, found in

Sub-Saharan Africa Sub-Saharan Africa is, geographically, the area and regions of the continent of Africa that lies south of the Sahara. These include West Africa, East Africa, Central Africa, and Southern Africa. Geopolitically, in addition to the List of sov ...

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

Tragia glabrata ''Tragia durbanensis'', the stinging nettle creeper, is a twining herb in the family Euphorbiaceae,Pooley, E. (1998). ''A Field Guide to Wild Flowers; KwaZulu-Natal and the Eastern Region''. . with a restricted distribution in southern Africa.S ...

'' and ''

Dalechampia capensis ''Dalechampia capensis'' is a species of shrub. It is known by the common names inzula or wild hop. It is native to Botswana, South Africa, Mozambique, Eswatini, Tanzania, and Zambia. The species is eaten by larval ''Byblia ilithyia'' and ''Eur ...

''.

Subspecies

Listed alphabetically:''Byblia''
at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms'' *''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 Kagera Region (''Mkoa wa Kagera'' in Swahili) is one of Tanzania's 31 administrative regions. The region covers an area of . The region is comparable in size to the combined land area of the nation state of Netherlands. Kagera Region is borde ...

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* Bode, J. (2012)
Pirate & Joker Sap Sucking
feeding on sugary sap of ''

Ziziphus mucronata ''Ziziphus mucronata'', known as the buffalo thorn, is a species of tree in the family Rhamnaceae, native to southern Africa. It is deciduous and may grow up to 17 metres tall. It can survive in a variety of soil types, occurring in many habitat ...

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