Memphis offa is a species of leafwing found in South America.*
Subspecies Memphis offa offa, present in Ecuador, Bolivia, and Peru. Memphis offa gudrun (Niepelt, 1924), present in Colombia and Peru.
Description Memphis offa is a butterfly that exhibits sexual dimorphism, with both sexes having a humped costal edge, a hook-like internal angle, and a concave inner edge. The upper part of the male is dark blue with a metallic blue basal part while that of the female is brown discreetly suffused with blue.The distal spot before the apex is double and there is also a diffuse spot before the middle of the border of the forewing. The male's underside is dark brown, the female's is yellow, both mimic a dead leaf. 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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