Laurel Leafwing (Memphis moruus)

Fazenda Grotão - DF, Brazil.

 

Like other related butterflies in the subfamily Charaxinae, this one uses its underside wing to mimic a dead leaf.

 

There are another 60 species in the genus Memphis, all are Neotropical in distribution.

 

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Arthropoda

Class: Insecta

Order: Lepidoptera

Superfamily: Papilionoidea

Family: Nymphalidae

Subfamily: Charaxinae

Tribe: Anaeini

Genus: Memphis Hübner, [1819]

Species: M. moruus (Fabricius, 1775)

Binomial name: Memphis moruus

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