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Baspa melampus, the Indian red flash is a species of blue (Lycaenidae) butterfly found in South-East Asia.




Range


The butterfly occurs in Sri Lanka and in India from South India to Orissa, and, in the north from Murree to Kumaon. The range extends to Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore, Sumatra, Borneo and Bangka.




Taxonomy


The butterfly was previously classified as Rapala melampus (Stoll, 1781). It is also sometimes treated as a subspecies of Rapala iarbus.




Status


In 1932, William Harry Evans described the species as not rare.




See also


List of butterflies of India (Lycaenidae)




Cited references






References


Beccaloni, George; Scoble, Malcolm; Kitching, Ian; Simonsen, Thomas; Robinson, Gaden; Pitkin, Brian; Hine, Adrian; Lyal, Chris. "The Global Lepidoptera Names Index (LepIndex)". Natural History Museum, London. Retrieved 2016-10-15.
Evans, W.H. (1932). The Identification of Indian Butterflies (2nd ed.). Mumbai, India: Bombay Natural History Society.
Haribal, Meena (1992). The Butterflies of Sikkim Himalaya and Their Natural History. Gangtok, Sikkim, India: Sikkim Nature Conservation Foundation.
"Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera".
Wynter-Blyth, Mark Alexander (1957). Butterflies of the Indian Region. Bombay, India: Bombay Natural History Society. ISBN 978-8170192329.

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