''Sinia'' is a
genus of
butterflies
Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the Order (biology), order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. The ...
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
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Sinia leechi''
(Forster, 1940) China
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The ''shijimiaeoides''
species group
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Sinia divina''
(Fixsen, 1887) Korea,
Japan
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,
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) ]
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Sinia lanty''
(Oberthür, 1886) Tibet, western
China
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**''S. l. honei''
(Forster, 1940) Batang, Tibet
**''S. l. pomena''
Huang, 1998 western Tibet, southeast Tibet
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Polyommatini
Lycaenidae genera
Taxa named by Walter Forster (entomologist)
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