Rapala cassidyi
Appearance
Cassidy's flash | |
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Male in Sulawesi | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Lycaenidae |
Genus: | Rapala |
Species: | R. cassidyi
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Binomial name | |
Rapala cassidyi Takanami, 1992
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Rapala cassidyi, the Cassidy's flash is a lycaenid butterfly found in Sulawesi.[1] It was discovered in 1985 during the Project Wallace expedition of the Royal Entomological Society.[2] The female remains undescribed.[1]
Range
[edit]The species lives in northern Sulawesi, Indonesia, in Bogani Nani Wartabone National Park.
Description
[edit]The upperside of the male is unusual in that it has only a small amount of pale orange on the discal area of the forewing below the cell; a pattern more reminiscent of females of the genus. The underside ground colour is light slate brown with a glossy sheen. The usual postdiscal striae or the genus are present in an ochreous colour and there is a diffuse ochreous marginal band on both wings.
Gallery
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Upperside, paratype male, from northern Sulawesi
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Underside, paratype male, from northern Sulawesi
See also
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