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Species of butterfly
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]
See also
Cited references
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^ 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.
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a
b
c
Evans, W.H. (1932). The Identification of Indian Butterflies (2nd ed.). Mumbai, India:
Bombay Natural History Society. p. 299, ser no H85.16.
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a
b
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.
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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.
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"Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera".
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Wynter-Blyth, Mark Alexander (1957).
Butterflies of the Indian Region. Bombay, India:
Bombay Natural History Society.
ISBN
978-8170192329.