Memphis hirta is a species of leafwing found in South America.It is endemic to Brazil. * Memphis hirta is a butterfly with forewings with a humped costal edge, hook-like inner angle and concave inner edge. Each hindwing has a tail.The upper side is red with the apex and the band along the outer edge on the forewings blackened or purple. There is a slight metallic blue suffusion from the basal part of the forewings.The underside is brown dotted with dark brown 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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