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 [1]
  • Papilio arcius Linnaeus, 1763
  • Papilio butes Linnaeus, 1767

Rhetus arcius is a species of Neotropical butterfly, first described in Carl Linnaeus' 1763 Centuria Insectorum.[1]

References

  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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