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Long-tailed Metalmark

Rhetus arcius thia

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21.1402, -98.4201

Field Notes

Description:

Its wingspan is 2.2 cm. on average there are smaller specimens measuring up to 1.8 cm and not more than 2.4 cm in males.

Habitat:

This butterfly is associated with Tropical forests perenni and subperennifolios and cloud forest, mainly from 500 to 1300 meters; flies open and closed spaces, often in the wet sand of the beaches of streams and rivers.

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Comments (8)
Gilma Jeannette Ospino Ferreira-Norman
It is a beautiful Butterfly. Fantastic spotting, EduardoAxelRecillasBautista. It will ever be in my fondest memories the day I spotted a Rhetus arcius, a couple of years ago.

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National Geographic's Great Nature Project
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PublishedSeptember 24, 2014

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