Memphis grandis is a species of leafwing found in South America (Brazil and Guyana).*
Memphis grandis is larger than the other Memphis It is a butterfly with forewings with a humped costal edge, an almost straight outer edge, a hook-like inner angle and a very concave inner edge. Each hindwing bears a club-shaped tail. The upper part is dark blue, almost black with a metallic blue basal part, or brown with a metallic yellow-green basal part. The underside is orange-yellow, light ochre marked with dark spots in the female, and simulates a dead leaf.Seitz- Large, upper surface almost exactly as in proserpina, broad and obtuse wings, with a short broad spatulate tail of the hindwing, the blue of the basal half the hindwing light and bright. The dirty sand-coloured, yellowish-brown under surface is irregularly irrorated in a sooty colour. 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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