Rapala melampus Baspa melampus, the Indian red flash[1] is a species of blue (Lycaenidae) butterfly found in South-East Asia.

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] The butterfly was previously classified as Rapala melampus (Stoll, 1781).

[3] In 1932, William Harry Evans described the species as not rare.