Brephidium exilis thompsoni / Pygmy Blue (Carpenter & Lewis 1943)
LYCAENIDAE Color Plate
Endemic to the Cayman Islands
© Justin Uzzell
Collection: Joanne Ross
Plate 13 # 43 p.127
Ants will cultivate the caterpillars on the host plants
who will in turn offer them a sweet secretion excreted from a special gland.
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© Richard Ground