Taxonomic Information
Sinna Walker, 1865 species known from India.
Sinna extrema (Walker, 1854). India: Nagaland, Mizoram, Manipur, Arunachal Pradesh.
Sinna floralis Hampson, 1905. India: Assam, Tripura, Mizoram, Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim, West Bengal.
Sinna dohertyi Elwes, 1890. India: Naga Hills (TL), Sikkim.
Photo Gallery and Species Biology
This appears to be a range extension, previously known only from Eastern Siberia, Western China to Japan.
| State | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | No date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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| Andhra Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Arunachal Pradesh | 4 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
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| Madhya Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Maharashtra | |||||||||||||
| Manipur | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Meghalaya | |||||||||||||
| Mizoram | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Nagaland | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Odisha | |||||||||||||
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| Tripura | |||||||||||||
| Uttar Pradesh | |||||||||||||
| Uttarakhand | |||||||||||||
| West Bengal | |||||||||||||
| Total | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
- Hampson, G. F. 1911. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. v.11. pg. 468 #6817
- Inoue, h.; Sugi, S.; Kuroko, H.; Moriuti, S.; Kawabe, A.; Owada, M. 1982. Moths of Japan Vol 2, pl 195/39-40.
- Moths of Kagoshima. http://www.jpmoth.org/~dmoth/Moths%20of%20Kagoshima/78_Nolidae/02_Chloephorinae/4008_Sinna_extrema/Sinna%20extrema.htm [accessed 3 October 2016]
- http://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=365721 [accessed 3 October 2016]
Page citation
Anonymous 2025. Sinna extrema (Walker, 1854) – . In Sondhi, S., R.P. Singh, G. Iyer, J. D'silva and K. Kunte (Chief Editors). Butterflies of India, v. 4.11. Published by the Indian Foundation for Butterflies. URL: https://www.mothsofindia.org/sinna-extrema, accessed 2025/11/03.