Paphinia vermiculifera is a species of orchid found in 2003.

It gains its name from the Latin word vermiculus meaning worm due to two distinctive worm-shaped emergences at the base of its labellum.

[1] The original holotype was found in Coclé, El Valle de Antón.

The plant flowered in cultivation on July 6, 2002.

[2] The classification of this orchid species was published by Gunter Gerlach & Robert Louis Dressler; Stanhopeinae Mesoamericanae I in Laneksteriana, 8:23-30.