Memphis arginussa

Memphis arginussa
ssp.onophis depicted in Seitz Macrolepidoptera of the World
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Tribe: Anaeini
Genus: Memphis
Species:
M. arginussa
Binomial name
Memphis arginussa
(Geyer, 1832) [1]

Memphis arginussa is a species of leafwing found in South America.[2]

Subspecies

  • Memphis arginussa arginussa present in Brazil.
  • Memphis arginussa eubaena (Boisduval, 1870) [3]present in Mexico, Guatemala, and Panama.
  • Memphis arginussa onophis (C. & R. Felder, 1861) [4]

Description

Memphis arginussa is a butterfly with forewings with a humped costal edge, concave outer edge, concave inner edge and hindwings with a tail. The upper part is dark blue to brown, with a lighter basal part, blue or blue-green, and a submarginal line of light dots. The underside is light brown and simulates a dead leaf.

  • arginussa Hbn. greatly resembles onophis above, the white submarginal dots of the hindwings are also beneath very prominent. — onophides Stgr. from the Chiriqui has only 4 blue submarginal spots of the forewings. — concolor we denominate the South Brazilian form (Santa Catharina, Sao Paulo) in which on the upper surface all the wings are hardly differently coloured on the basal area, as on the outer part of the wings, whereas typical arginussa exhibit a bright blue reflection at the base.
  • A. eubaena more pointed forewings, being more sinuated at the distal margin; the ground-colouring is, compared with onophis, more brownish than black and the fore- wings seem always to exhibit only 4 blue submarginal spots. The under surface is lighter than in onophis, but scarcely different in the scheme of markings.
  • onophis Fldr. (118 e)The female has a more compact shape, paler colours and a larger yellowish spot at the costal margin of the hindwings. Beneath the species is similarly decorated with dark and silky bands as ‘’pithyusa ‘’(118 f), but the dark inner half is distally more irregularly defined and projects in thick obtuse teeth behind the cellule of the forewing.[5][6][7]


References

  1. ^ Geyer, C. 1832 Zuträge zur Sammlung exotischer Schmettlinge, Vol. 4 [1826]-1832
  2. ^ *Savela, Markku (April 7, 2019). "Memphis Hübner, [1819]". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved July 13, 2025.
  3. ^ Boisduval, J.B. 1870 Considerations sur des Lépidoptères envoyés du Guatemala à M. de l'Orza 1-100 Gallica
  4. ^ C. & R. Felder, 1861 Lepidoptera nova Columbiae Wien. ent. Monats 5.
  5. ^ Röber, J. "ANAEA". In Seitz, Adalbert (ed.). The Macrolepidoptera of the world. Stuttgart: Fritz Lehmann Verlag. p. 586. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  6. ^ D'Abrera, B. 1988. Butterflies of the Neotropical Region, Nymphalidae, Satyridae. Victoria: Hill House. Pp. 680-723.; present in Mexico, Guatemala, and Panama.
  7. ^ Comstock, W. P.1961. Butterflies of the American Tropics: the genus Anaea. Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae. New York: Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 214pp,30pl.
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