Baspa melampus

Baspa melampus
	Male left, female right
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Genus:	Baspa
Species:	B. melampus
Binomial name
	Baspa melampus; (Stoll, 1781)
Synonyms
	Rapala melampus

Last updated March 12, 2025

Baspa melampus, the Indian red flash,^[1] 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.^[2] The range extends to Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore, Sumatra, Borneo and Bangka.^[3]

Taxonomy

The butterfly was previously classified as Rapala melampus (Stoll, 1781).^[2] It is also sometimes treated as a subspecies of Rapala iarbus .^[3]

Status

In 1932, William Harry Evans described the species as not rare.^[2]

Cited references

↑ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Rapala sorya". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index . Natural History Museum. Retrieved April 19, 2018.
1 2 3 Evans, W.H. (1932). The Identification of Indian Butterflies (2nd ed.). Mumbai, India: Bombay Natural History Society. p. 299, ser no H85.16.
1 2 Rapala at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms

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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[LepIndex_Baspa_melampus-1] Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Rapala sorya". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index . Natural History Museum. Retrieved April 19, 2018.

[Evans-2] 1 2 3 Evans, W.H. (1932). The Identification of Indian Butterflies (2nd ed.). Mumbai, India: Bombay Natural History Society. p. 299, ser no H85.16.

[Savela-3] 1 2 Rapala at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms

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