Baspa melampus

Taxobox | name = Indian Red Flash
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image_width = 240px
image_caption = "Baspa melampus"Mal left, female right.
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
ordo = Lepidoptera
familia = Lycaenidae
genus = "Baspa"
species = "B. melampus"
binomial = "Baspa melampus"
binomial_authority = (Stoll, 1781)
synonyms = "Rapala melampus"

The Indian Red Flash "Baspa melampus" [http://internt.nhm.ac.uk/jdsml/research-curation/projects/lepindex/detail.dsml?TaxonNo=195696.0&UserID=&UserName=&&listPageURL=list%2edsml%3fSCIENTIFIC%5fNAME%5fon%5fcardqtype%3dstarts%2bwith%26sort%3dSCIENTIFIC%255fNAME%255fon%255fcard%26SCIENTIFIC%5fNAME%5fon%5fcard%3dmelampus%26recLimit%3d30&searchPageURL=index%2edsml%3fsort%3dSCIENTIFIC%255fNAME%255fon%255fcard%26SCIENTIFIC%5fNAME%5fon%5fcardqtype%3dstarts%2bwith%26SCIENTIFIC%5fNAME%5fon%5fcard%3dmelampus%26recLimit%3d30 Card for "Baspa melampus" in LepIndex. Accessed 14 Jun 2007.] ] is a species of blue 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 Evans,W.H.(1932) The Identification of Indian Butterflies, ser no H85.16, pp 299.] The range extends to Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore, Sumatra, Borneo and Bangka.Marrku Savela's Website on Lepidoptera [http://www.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/papilionoidea/lycaenidae/theclinae/rapala/index.html| Page on "Rapala" genus.] ]

Taxonomy

The butterfly was previously classified as "Rapala melampus" (Fabricius 1787)It is also sometimes treated as a subspecies of "Rapala iarbus".

tatus

Not Rare.

Cited references

ee also

*List of butterflies of India (Lycaenidae)

References

* Beccaloni, G. W., Scoble, M. J., Robinson, G. S. & Pitkin, B. (Editors). 2003. The Global Lepidoptera Names Index (LepIndex). World Wide Web electronic publication. http://www.nhm.ac.uk/entomology/lepindex.
* Evans, W.H. (1932) The Identification of Indian Butterflies. (2nd Ed), Bombay Natural History Society, Mumbai, India
* Haribal, Meena (1994) Butterflies of Sikkim Himalaya and their Natural History.
* Marrku Savela's Website on Lepidoptera [http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/index.html] .
* Wynter-Blyth, M.A. (1957) Butterflies of the Indian Region, Bombay Natural History Society, Mumbai, India.