Subspecies in India
(1) Rapala pheretima petosiris (Hewitson, [1863]) – Indian Copper Flash
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This species is historically known to occur from Odisha and Nepal eastward into the eastern Himalaya, NE India, Myanmar, Indo-China and Malay Peninsula (Cantlie 1962; Evans 1932; Inayoshi 2015; Mohapatra et al. 2012; Wynter-Blyth 1957). However, it has apparently not been reported from central India (Shrivastava 2008). The record (BOI-bs277) from Mukki, Kanha NP, by David Raju, reported here on 9 May 2015, appears to be the first record of the species from Madhya Pradesh.
| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andaman and Nicobar Islands UT | |||||||||||||
| Andhra Pradesh | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Arunachal Pradesh | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | ||||||||
| Assam | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||
| Bihar | |||||||||||||
| Chandigarh | |||||||||||||
| Chhattisgarh | 2 | 1 | 3 | ||||||||||
| Dadra & Nagar Haveli UT | |||||||||||||
| Daman & Diu UT | |||||||||||||
| Delhi | |||||||||||||
| Goa | |||||||||||||
| Gujarat | |||||||||||||
| Haryana | |||||||||||||
| Himachal Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Jammu and Kashmir UT | |||||||||||||
| Jharkhand | |||||||||||||
| Karnataka | |||||||||||||
| Kerala | |||||||||||||
| Ladakh UT | |||||||||||||
| Lakshadweep | |||||||||||||
| Madhya Pradesh | 10 | 3 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Maharashtra | |||||||||||||
| Manipur | |||||||||||||
| Meghalaya | 3 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Mizoram | |||||||||||||
| Nagaland | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Odisha | |||||||||||||
| Puducherry UT | |||||||||||||
| Punjab | |||||||||||||
| Rajasthan | |||||||||||||
| Sikkim | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Tamil Nadu | |||||||||||||
| Tripura | 4 | ||||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | 3 | ||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | |||||||||||||
| West Bengal | 1 | 7 | 1 | 3 | |||||||||
| Total | 2 | 2 | 4 | 23 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 12 |
Cantlie, K. 1962. The Lycaenidae Portion (Except the Arhopala Group), of Brigadier Evans’ The Identification of Indian Butterflies 1932 (India, Pakistan, Ceylon, Burma). Bombay Natural History Society, Mumbai.
Evans, W. H. 1932. The Identification of Indian butterflies. 2nd edn. Bombay Natural History Society, Mumbai.
Inayoshi, Y. 2015. A Check List of Butterflies in Indo-China (chiefly from Thailand, Laos and Vietnam).
Mohapatra, P. P., V. Sarkar, A. K. Mishra, and M. V. Nair. 2012. A Field Guide for Beginners: Butterflies of Bonai, Odisha. Odisha Forestry Sector Development Project, Bhubaneswar, India.
Shrivastava, A. 2008. Butterflies: A Photographic Compendium of Butterflies of Central India. Tripathga Prakashan Pvt. Ltd., Bhopal, India.
Wynter-Blyth, M. A. 1957. Butterflies of the Indian Region. Bombay Natural History Society, Mumbai.
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Rapala pheretima (Hewitson, [1863]) – Copper Flash. In Kunte, K., S. Sondhi, and P. Roy (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 4.12. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.ifoundbutterflies.org/rapala-pheretima, accessed 2025/01/19.