Sinthusa menglaensis
| Sinthusa menglaensis | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Lycaenidae |
| Genus: | Sinthusa |
| Species: | S. menglaensis
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| Binomial name | |
| Sinthusa menglaensis (Wang, 1997)
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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
- ^ "(PDF) SYNOPTIC CATALOGUE OF THE BUTTERFLIES OF INDIA Second Edition". ResearchGate. Archived from the original on 2025-11-15. Retrieved 2026-03-11.
- ^ "Sinthusa". www.nic.funet.fi. Retrieved 2026-03-11.
- ^ Huang, Hao; Xue, Yu Ping. "A contribution to the butterfly fauna of southern Yunnan (Lepidoptera, Rhopalocera)" (PDF). Neue Entomologische Nachrichten (57): 135–154.