Rapala suffusa explained

Rapala suffusa, the suffused flash, is a lycaenid or blue butterfly found in Myanmar, northern India, Assam, Thailand, Indochina and Palawan. The species was first described by Frederic Moore in 1878.^[1]

Subspecies

• R. s. suffusa northern India, Assam, Thailand, Indochina
• R. s. laima H. H. Druce, 1895 Borneo
• R. s. praxeas Fruhstorfer, 1914 Java
• R. s. catulus Fruhstorfer, 1912 Nias
• R. s. barthema (Distant, 1885)
• R. s. anabasis (Staudinger, 1889) Palawan

External links

• Web site: Takanami . Yusuke . Seki . Yasuo . amp . 2001 . Genus Rapala . A Synonymic List of Lycaenidae from the Philippines . https://web.archive.org/web/20010903224235/http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~Ey4y-TKNM/Deudorigini-Phil/Rapala.html . September 3, 2001 . Internet Archive. With images.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Savela . Markku . March 10, 2019 . Rapala suffusa (Moore, 1878) . Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms . January 14, 2020.