Memphis polycarmes

Memphis polycarmes
In Seitz's Macrolepidoptera of the World as odilia (Stoll, 1780) (junior synonym)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Tribe:	Anaeini
Genus:	Memphis
Species:	M. polycarmes
Binomial name
Memphis polycarmes (Fabricius, 1775) [1]

Memphis polycarmes is a species of leafwing found in South America (Brazil, Peru, Guyana, Suriname).^[2]

Memphis polycarmes is a butterfly with forewings with a humped costal edge, angular apex, almost straight outer edge, hook-shaped inner angle, concave inner edge and hind wings each with a club-shaped tail. The upper side of the male's wings is brown or purple more or less dark with a broad basal metallic blue suffusion, that of the female is brown with a metallic blue basal and in both the forewings and hindwings are bordered by an orange fringe. The reverse side is bright yellow ochre and simulates a dead leaf. Seitz - A. odilia Cr. (= polycarmes F.) (120 Ad, 120 Bd) is a rare species from the Upper Amazon. The. upper surface is lighter or darker, but always unmarked. The under surface exhibits more or less white scaling. The female is above greyish-brown with glossy blue scaling, except dull margins; several indistinct bluish subapical spots. Under surface light greyish-brown with a slight cloudy marking on the hindwings and small white spots at the distal margin of the hindwings.^{[3][4] [5]}