Baspa melampus
Species of butterfly
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Baspa melampus, the Indian red flash,[1] is a species of blue (Lycaenidae) butterfly found in South-East Asia.
| Baspa melampus | |
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| Male left, female right | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Lycaenidae |
| Genus: | Baspa |
| Species: | B. melampus |
| Binomial name | |
| Baspa melampus (Stoll, 1781) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Rapala melampus | |
Range
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]
