The unique feature about species in this family is that their first pair of forelegs (being insects, all lepidoptera have 3 pairs of legs!) are reduced so that they actually only stand on their middle and rear legs. If you have a microscope, you'll also see that their antennae always have two grooves on the underside.

Many species are brightly coloured on their upperwings. Their underwings, however, can be incredibly drab, often looking like dead leaves: such crypsis enables them to blend-in with their surrounding.

One of the most iconic Nymphalidae is the Monarch Butterfly (Danaus plexippus), whose eastern North American population migrates thousands of miles from southern Canada and the USA to overwinter in a small patch of pine forest in Mexico.

Alas, we don't have any photos of Jamaica's resident subspecies of Monarch (Danaus plexippus megalippe), which our friend Vaughan Turland notes is not very common. He thinks the migratory form may show up occassionally, as they do in Cuba:

Cristina Dockx, Lincoln P. Brower, Leonard I. Wassenaar, and Keith A. Hobson. 2004. Do North American monarch butterflies travel to Cuba? Stable isotope and chemical tracer techniques. Ecological Applications 14:1106-1114. Appendix Plates