Memphis otrere

Memphis otrere
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Tribe:	Anaeini
Genus:	Memphis
Species:	M. otrere
Binomial name
	Memphis otrere; (Hübner, 1825

Memphis otrere is a species of leafwing found in South America.It is endemic to Brazil. ^[1] Memphis otrere is a butterfly with forewings with a humped costal edge, angular apex, almost straight outer edge, hook-like inner angle and concave inner edge. The hindwings with a tail.The upper side has a sexual dimorphism of colour, the male is dark brown, the female light golden brown with the same metallic blue ornamentation in the basal part of the forewings and in suffusion on the hind wings. A few blue spots near the apex of the forewings complete the ornamentation.The underside is yellowed beige and simulates a dead leaf.Seitz - it is beneath like the preceding species [Memphis moruus stheno], but somewhat more marked. Except in front of the apex there are blue reflecting spots also before the middle of the border of the forewing; but they are much further away from the border than in similar species. ^[2]^[3] ^[4]

References

^ *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.; present in Mexico, Guatemala, and Panama.
^ Julius Rober ANAEA in Seitz.A. Band 5: Abt. 2, Die exotischen Großschmetterlinge, Die Großschmetterlinge des amerikanischen Faunengebietes, 1907 580 et seq. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

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[funet-1] *Savela, Markku (April 7, 2019). "Memphis Hübner, [1819]". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved July 13, 2025.

[2] Comstock, W. P.1961. Butterflies of the American Tropics: the genus Anaea. Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae. New York: Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 214pp,30pl.

[3] D'Abrera, B. 1988. Butterflies of the Neotropical Region, Nymphalidae, Satyridae. Victoria: Hill House. Pp. 680-723.; present in Mexico, Guatemala, and Panama.

[4] Julius Rober ANAEA in Seitz.A. Band 5: Abt. 2, Die exotischen Großschmetterlinge, Die Großschmetterlinge des amerikanischen Faunengebietes, 1907 580 et seq. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

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