Cassidy's flash
Male in Sulawesi
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lycaenidae
Genus:	Rapala
Species:	R. cassidyi
Binomial name
Rapala cassidyi Takanami, 1992

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]

The species lives in northern Sulawesi, Indonesia, in Bogani Nani Wartabone National Park.

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.

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  Upperside, paratype male, from northern Sulawesi
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  Underside, paratype male, from northern Sulawesi

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