Sinia

{{Short description|Butterfly genus in family Lycaenidae}}

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{{Automatic taxobox

| image = RomanoffMem.LépidPlate13.jpg

| image_caption = Sinia divina figures 5a and b

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| image2_caption = Now Sinia lanty

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| taxon = Sinia

| authority = Forster, 1940

| synonyms = Shijimiaeoides Beuret, 1958

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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.

Species

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.Seitz, A. ed. Band 1: Abt. 1, Die Großschmetterlinge des palaearktischen Faunengebietes, Die palaearktischen Tagfalter, 1909, 379 Seiten, mit 89 kolorierten Tafeln (3470 Figuren) {{PD-notice}}
  • Sinia lanty (Oberthür, 1886) Tibet, western China
  • S. l. honei (Forster, 1940) Batang, Tibet
  • S. l. pomena Huang, 1998 western Tibet, southeast Tibet

References

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