Memphis artacaena

Memphis artacaena
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Memphis
Species:
M. artacaena
Binomial name
Memphis artacaena
(Hewitson, 1869) [1]

Memphis artacaena is a species of leafwing found in South America (Mexico, Costa Rica, and Colombia).[2]

Description

Memphis artacaena is a butterfly with forewings and a humped costal edge, an almost straight outer edge, a concave inner edge and a tailed hind wing. The upper side of the forewings is partly brown, with a metallic light blue-green basal part separated by a band of contiguous white spots. The upper side of the hindwings is light brown with a blue suffusion in the basal part. The reverse side is pearly white decorated with a more or less tight dotted line of small reddish-brown or black dots and simulates a dead leaf.Seitz- A. artacaena Hew. (120 B a) is distributed all over Central America as far as Colombia, but everywhere very rare. Both sexes possess a white band of the forewing being pierced behind the cellule, whereby the species is at once recognizable. It is also - beneath distinguished by a light tinge which strongly contrasts with the dark proximal part of the forewing. [3] [4] [5]


Biology

The host plant of its caterpillar is a Croton, Croton schiedeanus.

References

  1. ^ Hewitson, W. C., 1869–1877. Equatorial Lepidoptera Collected by Mr. Buckley, or Remarks on and descriptions of new species of butterflies collected by Mr. Buckley in Ecuador. London, van Voorst
  2. ^ *Savela, Markku (April 7, 2019). "Memphis Hübner, [1819]". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved July 13, 2025.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ D'Abrera, B. 1988. Butterflies of the Neotropical Region, Nymphalidae, Satyridae. Victoria: Hill House. Pp. 680-723.; present in Mexico, Guatemala, and Panama.
  5. ^ 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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