Spotted Joker

Byblia ilithyia · Order: Lepidoptera · Family: Nymphalidae

Also called: Joker

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Spotted Joker
Photo: K. Mohan Raj, CC BY-SA

The spotted joker butterfly has a wingspan of about 50 to 56 mm. Males show deep rich orange on the upper wings and have distinctive black markings on the hindwing, including a sub-costal patch and several transverse spots and bands.

Source: Wikipedia

How to recognize it

Males have deep rich orange upper wings. The hindwing shows an elongate black sub-costal patch near the base, followed by inner and outer series of small transverse spots, a broad black postdiscal band with black-lined veins, and a narrow black terminal band.

Source: Wikipedia

Size

Wingspan ranges from 50 to 56 mm.

Source: Wikipedia

What it eats

Larvae feed on Tragia involucrata, T. plukenetii, T. dubanensis, T. glabrata, T. cannabina, and Dalechampia capensis.

Source: Wikipedia

Life cycle

The species has a haploid chromosome number of 17.

Source: Wikipedia

More photos

Spotted Joker photo 3
Photo: Derek Keats, CC BY

Same family (Nymphalidae)

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Sources

  • Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byblia_ilithyia

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Text written 2026-10-23 from the sources above and checked sentence by sentence against them. Data fetched 2026-10-22.

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