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Memphis appias
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Memphis appias

Memphis appias is a species of leafwing found in South America (Columbia and Brazil) Memphis appias is a butterfly with forewings with a humped costal edge, hook-shaped apex, concave outer edge, concave inner edge and hindwings with a tail.There is a sexual dimorphism of colour. The upper part of the male is brown with the basal part of the forewings metallic blue, some white spots and the hindwings suffused with metallic blue with a submarginal line

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 133733.