Baspa melampus
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 Baspa melampusMal left, female right.
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The Indian Red Flash Baspa melampus [1] is a species of blue butterfly found in South East Asia.
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[edit] 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]
[edit] Taxonomy
The butterfly was previously classified as Rapala melampus (Fabricius 1787)[2]It is also sometimes treated as a subspecies of Rapala iarbus.[3]
[edit] Status
Not Rare.[2]
[edit] Cited references
- ^ Card for Baspa melampus in LepIndex. Accessed 14 Jun 2007.
- ^ a b c Evans,W.H.(1932) The Identification of Indian Butterflies, ser no H85.16, pp 299.
- ^ a b Marrku Savela's Website on Lepidoptera Page on Rapala genus.
[edit] See also
[edit] 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 [1].
- Wynter-Blyth, M.A. (1957) Butterflies of the Indian Region, Bombay Natural History Society, Mumbai, India.
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