Sinonympha

Sinonympha
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Sinonympha Lee, 1974 [1]
Species:	S. amoena
Binomial name
Sinonympha amoena Lee, 1974

Sinonympha is a monotypic butterfly genus in the family Nymphalidae (subfamily Satyrinae). The genus contains the single species Sinonympha amoena, which is found only in western China.

Synonymy

Sinonympha avinoffi (Schaus, 1927) is conspecific and has date priority.

References

1. Lee, Cl. 1974; Some new species of Rhopalocera from China. IV Acta ent. Sinica 17 (2): 198-204

• "Sinonympha Lee, 1974" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms

External links

• Images representing Sinonympha amoena at Consortium for the Barcode of Life