Rhetus arcius

Rhetus arcius
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Riodinidae
Genus:	Rhetus
Species:	R. arcius
Binomial name
	Rhetus arcius; (Linnaeus, 1763)
Synonyms
	Papilio arciusLinnaeus, 1763; Papilio butesLinnaeus, 1767;

Last updated August 18, 2025

Rhetus arcius, the long-tailed metalmark, s a species of Neotropical butterfly, first described in Carl Linnaeus' 1763 Centuria Insectorum .^[1]

References

1 2 Martin R. Honey & Malcolm J. Scoble (2008). "Linnaeus's butterflies (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea and Hesperioidea)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society . 132 (3): 277–399. doi: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2001.tb01326.x .

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[Honey-1] 1 2 Martin R. Honey & Malcolm J. Scoble (2008). "Linnaeus's butterflies (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea and Hesperioidea)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society . 132 (3): 277–399. doi: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2001.tb01326.x .

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