Rapala sphinx

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Brilliant flash
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Genus: Rapala
Species:
R. sphinx
Binomial name
Rapala sphinx
(Fabricius, 1775)

Rapala sphinx, the brilliant flash, is a species of lycaenid or blue butterfly found in Asia. [1]

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References

  1. Doherty, William (1889). Papers on Indo-Malayan Butterflies: On certain Lycaenidae from lower Tennasserim; A list of the butterflies of Engano, and, new and rare Indian Lycaenidea; The butterflies of Sumba and Sambawa with some account of the island of Sumba. Printed at the Baptist Mission Press. p. 22.