Memphis polycarmes is a species of leafwing found in South America (Brazil, Peru, Guyana, Suriname).*
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. 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.
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