Memphis forreri

Memphis forreri
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Tribe: Anaeini
Genus: Memphis
Species:
M. forreri
Binomial name
Memphis forreri
(Godman & Salvin, [1884])[1]

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

Description

Memphis forreri is a fore-winged butterfly with a humped costal edge, a concave outer edge, a hook-like inner angle, and a concave inner edge. The upper part is violet blue or brown with purple reflections, with a lighter basal part and a metallic blue submarginal band on the forewings. The reverse side is brown with metallic reflections and simulates a dead leaf.

Seitz: "Wings bluish-black; forewing at the basal area of a bright blue and with a blue subapical band from the costal margin as far as nearly to the border, as well as two confluent blue spots near the anal angle. Forewings very pointed, hindwings without tails. Beneath of a pale brown, irrorated with brown and grey, and especially in the anal angle of the forewings thus marbled, the forewings with a rusty-reddish hue in the discal area. Female like the male, but the hindwing with a spatulate tail."[3][4] [5]


Biology

The host plant of its caterpillar is Ocotea verguensis.

Etymology

Named in honour of Alphonse Forrer (1836–1899), an English-born collector of zoological specimens in Mexico for the British Museum.

References

  1. ^ Godman , H. & Salvin, O. [1884] Biologia Centrali-Americana. Rhopalocera. Vol. 1. (1879-1886) Biol. centr.-amer., Lep. Rhop. 1: 1-487, 3: pl. 1-24,24a,25-112
  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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