Memphis oenomais
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| Male and female in Seitz's Macrolepidoptera of the World | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Memphis |
| Species: | M. oenomais
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Memphis oenomais is a species of leafwing found in South America (Mexico, Costa Rica, Belize, Panama, Bolivia, Peru, Brazil and Guyana).[2]
Description
Memphis oenomais is a butterfly with forewings with a humped costal edge, a pointed hooked apex, a concave outer edge near the apex, a pointed internal angle in a hook, a concave inner edge and hind wings each with a club-shaped tail. The upper side of the wings is more or less dark brown with a broad basal metallic blue suffusion. The reverse side is yellow ochre to orange ochre, shiny, and simulates a dead leaf.[3][4][5]
Biology
The host plants of its caterpillar are Crotons. The insect resides in all types of tropical rainforest below 1,000 m. It lives in the canopy.
References
- ^ Boisduval,J.B. 1870 Considerations sur des Lépidoptères envoyés du Guatemala à M. de l'Orza 1-100
- ^ *Savela, Markku (April 7, 2019). "Memphis Hübner, [1819]". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved July 13, 2025.
- ^ Comstock, W. P. 1961. Butterflies of the American Tropics: the genus Anaea. Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae. New York: Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 214pp, 30pl.
- ^ D'Abrera, B. 1988. Butterflies of the Neotropical Region, Nymphalidae, Satyridae. Victoria: Hill House. Pp. 680-723.
- ^ Julius Rober ANAEA in Seitz.A. Band 5: Abt. 2, Die exotischen Großschmetterlinge, Die Großschmetterlinge des amerikanischen Faunengebietes, 1907 580 et seq.