Memphis falcata is a species of leafwing found in Peru.*
Memphis falcata is a butterfly with forewings with a humped costal edge, hook-like apex, concave outer edge and very concave inner edge. The upper part is brown with a metallic light blue postdiscal stripe. The underside is beige yellow and simulates a dead leaf.is the sole Anaea [Memphis] with a blue median band of the males. Most of the specimens have on the under surface of the hindwings a short straight band not like the figured specimen in which there is a distal continuation of this band. — The species. is very rare.
D'Abrera, B. 1988. Butterflies of the Neotropical Region, Nymphalidae, Satyridae. Victoria: Hill House. Pp. 680-723.; present in Mexico, Guatemala, and Panama. 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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