Spotted joker
Byblia ilithyia
The spotted joker is a deep orange butterfly with bold black bands and spots. Underneath, its wings have white bands and rows of black and white spots. It looks a little different in the rainy season and the dry season.
Lives in
Parts of Africa, central and southern India and Sri Lanka
Wingspan
5 to 5.6 cm (2 to 2.2 in)
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It cannot bite or sting.
What does it eat?
The butterflies drink from flowers. The caterpillars eat climbing plants related to nettles.
How big is it?
How wide are its wings?
🧱wings as wide as 2 toy building bricks⚽could fly across a whole football pitch in 27 seconds
How big is Spotted joker compared to YOU?
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How fast is it?
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
Spotted joker about 14 km/h (8.7 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
In the dry season its black markings are less sharp and the underside is darker.
2
The female is paler orange than the male, with narrower black bands.
3
The edges of its wings have a white fringe broken by brown.
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Most asked questions about Spotted joker
?Where does the spotted joker live?
In parts of Africa, central and southern India and Sri Lanka.
?How big is the spotted joker?
Its wings measure 50 to 56 millimetres from tip to tip.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Byblia ilithyia
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- Africa, Asia
- Also known as
- Joker
Where the facts come from
- Byblia ilithyia (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Charles J. Sharp. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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