Sinia
Butterfly genus in family Lycaenidae
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Sinia is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae first described by Walter Forster in 1940. The species of this genus are found in the far eastern Palearctic realm.
| Sinia | |
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| Sinia divina figures 5a and b | |
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| Now Sinia lanty | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Lycaenidae |
| Subfamily: | Polyommatinae |
| Tribe: | Polyommatini |
| Genus: | Sinia Forster, 1940 |
| Synonyms | |
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Shijimiaeoides Beuret, 1958 | |
Species
- Sinia leechi (Forster, 1940) China
The shijimiaeoides species group
- Sinia divina (Fixsen, 1887) Korea, Japan, Amur Oblast, Ussuri This largest species of the present group is above almost spotted like Scolitantides orion; the underside is more sparsely spotted than in S. orion, but the spots of the forewing beneath are so heavy that they are almost united into a band.[1]
- Sinia lanty (Oberthür, 1886) Tibet, western China
- S. l. honei (Forster, 1940) Batang, Tibet
- S. l. pomena Huang, 1998 western Tibet, southeast Tibet
