Memphis perenna is a species of leafwing found in South America.
Memphis perenna is a butterfly with forewings with a humped costal edge, concave outer edge, hooked inner angle and concave inner edge. Each hindwing bears a tail. The east upper side of the forewings is navy blue with a submarginal line of large metallic blue spots, the upper side of the hindwings is brown with a submarginal line of small metallic blue spots. The reverse side is brown with metallic reflections and simulates a dead leaf. Seitz -differs from all the species of this group by the blue marginal marking of the hindwings.
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.
Subspecies Memphis perenna perenna Guatemala. Memphis perenna austrina (Comstock, 1961) Colombia and Venezuela. Memphis perenna lankesteri (Hall, 1935) Hall, A. 1935 New forms of Nymphalinae and Ithomiinae Entomologist 68 : 221-227 Costa Rica.
It is also present in Mexico and Salvador.*
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