Sinthusa menglaensis

Sinthusa menglaensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lycaenidae
Genus: Sinthusa
Species:
S. menglaensis
Binomial name
Sinthusa menglaensis
(Wang, 1997)
Synonyms
  • Chilaria menglaensis

Sinthusa menglaensis, the Yunnan spark, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in Yunnan and Arunachal Pradesh. It was described by Zhi-Guo Wang in 1997.[1][2]

It was moved from the genus Chilaria (synonym of Hypolycaena) to Sinthusa because of wing venation.[3]

References

  1. ^ "(PDF) SYNOPTIC CATALOGUE OF THE BUTTERFLIES OF INDIA Second Edition". ResearchGate. Archived from the original on 2025-11-15. Retrieved 2026-03-11.
  2. ^ "Sinthusa". www.nic.funet.fi. Retrieved 2026-03-11.
  3. ^ Huang, Hao; Xue, Yu Ping. "A contribution to the butterfly fauna of southern Yunnan (Lepidoptera, Rhopalocera)" (PDF). Neue Entomologische Nachrichten (57): 135–154.