Memphis proserpina is a species of leafwing butterfly found in South America.*
Subspecies Memphis proserpina proserpina, present in Guatemala. Memphis proserpina elara (Godman & Salvin, 1897) Godman, F.D. & Salvin, O., 1897 Descriptions of New Species of Central and South American Rhopalocera Trans. ent. Soc. Lond. 1897 (2) : 241-248 present in Costa Rica and Panama. Memphis proserpina kingi (Miller & Nicolay, 1971), present in Panama. Memphis proserpina schausiana (Godman & Salvin, 1894),Godman, F. & Salvin, O. 1894 Descriptions of new Species of Rhopalocera from Mexico and Central America Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (6) 14 (80) : 95-98 present in Mexico.
Description Memphis proserpina is a butterfly with forewings with a humped costal edge and hooked internal angle. Each hindwing has a tail that is sometimes minimal. The upper side is navy blue with a metallic blue basal part on the forewings and a line of large metallic blue spots highlighting the apex, and on the hindwings a broad metallic blue suffusion. The underside is reddish-brown with metallic reflections and simulates a dead leaf.Comstock, W. P. 1961. Butterflies of the American Tropics: the genus Anaea. Lepidop tera, 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 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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