Cayman Brown Leaf Butterfly - Memphis verticordia danielana

Cayman Brown Leaf Butterfly - Memphis verticordia danielana (Witt, 1972)

Cayman Islands endemic butterfly
Family: NYMPHALIDAE - Brush-footed Butterflies.


FLICKER issue 10 July/August 2010 

Hanging on the Edge - The Life of the Cayman Brown Leaf Butterfly

by P. Ann van B. Stafford    pp.16-21

Butterflies of the Cayman Islands 

2008 by R.R. Askew and P.A. van B. Stafford

Memphis verticordia danielana   p.39-41

Cayman Brown Leaf butterfly resting

Cayman Brown Leaf Butterfly larvae on pseudospurs they made on 

Wild Cinnamon leaves - Croton nitens, Family: EUPHORBIACEAE, Grand Cayman, Nov. 17, 2009.

caterpillar securing its rolled leaf shelter with silk, Sept. 21, 2010

caterpillar has secured its rolled leaf shelter with silk, Sept. 22, 2010

newly emerged Cayman Brown Leaf butterfly, Feb.11, 2010

1938 Oxford University Biological Expedition to the Cayman Islands