Memphis catinka is a species of leafwing found in South America (Colombia and Peru).*
Memphis catinka is a butterfly with forewings with a humped costal edge, hooked inner angle and concave inner edge. Each hindwing bears a tail.The upper part is pearly blue, broadly edged with grey or almost completely dark grey.The reverse side is brown with metallic reflections and simulates a dead leaf.Seitz - was described and figured by Druce (120 Bc) according to a female of unknown habitat.Easily recognizable by the very light blue of the upper surface being brightened to white in the disk of the forewing. 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. References