| 1 | Hindwing with smoky brown marginal band | 2 |
| – | Hindwing without any marginal band | 3 |
| 2 | Forewing with antemedial and medial lines well separated | S. amoyalis |
| – | Forewing with antemedial and medial lines merged with each other at inner area | S. confutsealis |
| 3 | Hindwing with postmedial/submarginal line | 10 |
| – | Hindwing without any postmedial/submarginal line | 4 |
| 4 | Forewing with dark spot or white line present | 5 |
| – | Forewing without any dark spot or white line | S. metaxantha |
| 5 | Forewing with antemedial and post medial line outlined | S. ragonotalis |
| – | Forewing with antemedial and postmedial line without any outline | 6 |
| 6 | Forewing with thin white line closing end of cell | S. rubralis |
| – | Forewing without fine white line at end of cell | 7 |
| 7 | Forewing with postmedial line strongly excurved at medial veins, then oblique to meet inner margin | S. szetschwanalis |
| – | Forewing with postmedial line not as above | 8 |
| 8 | Forewing with postmedial line approximately oblique | 9 |
| – | Forewing with postmedial line slightly wavy | S. approximans |
| 9 | Hindwing darker | S. tonsealis |
| – | Hindwing paler | S. peltobathra |
| 10 | Hindwing with postmedial/submarginal line incomplete | 11 |
| – | Hindwing with postmedial/submarginal line complete | 14 |
| 11 | Forewing expenses about 20 mm (± 2–3 mm) | 12 |
| – | Forewing expenses greater than 30 mm | 13 |
| 12 | Hindwing with three dark spots | S. pusilla |
| – | Hindwing without dark spots | S. constrictalis |
| 13 | Forewing with purplish rufous ground colour | S. discinota |
| – | Forewing with purplish fuscous ground colour | S. sikkima |
| 14 | Near the base of forewing a large transversely oblong whitish ringlet which encloses a black patch | S. decora |
| – | Forewing lacks the above attribute | 15 |
| 15 | Hindwing yellowish, redder towards outer margin | S. rufina |
| – | Hindwing not as above | 16 |
| 16 | Forewing with antemedial and postmedial line fused | 17 |
| – | Forewing with antemedial and postmedial line not fused | 18 |
| 17 | Forewing with antemedial and postmedial line fused from Cu2 to inner margin | S. inordinata |
| – | Forewing with antemedial and postmedial line fused at inner margin, forming V-shaped figure | S. olivina |
| 18 | Forewing with single speck | 19 |
| – | Forewing with two specks (separate or joined by a bar) | 21 |
| 19 | Hindwing with postmedial line crossed by a rufous streak on vein Cu2 | S. pallescens |
| – | Hindwing without any streak on postmedial line | 20 |
| 20 | Forewing with an olive-green cell spot | S. pyraliformis |
| – | Forewing with a reddish brown discoidal spot defined by grey | S. papuana |
| 21 | Forewing without antemedial line, postmedial line present | S. unilinealis |
| – | Forewing with both the lines (antemedial and postmedial) present | 22 |
| 22 | Forewing with a large, fiery red or yellowish rufous patch below the cell before the antemedial line | 23 |
| – | Forewing without such patch below the cell before the antemedial line | 25 |
| 23 | Forewing with a large yellowish rufous patch below the cell before the antemedial line | S. nigripuncta |
| – | Forewing with a large fiery red patch below the cell before the antemedial line | 24 |
| 24 | Hindwing whitish, suffused with pale reddish | S. albioculalis |
| – | Hindwing fuscous; postmedial curved line whitish, area beyond it reddish brown | S. hoenei |
| 25 | Forewing with postmedial line highly angled | S. contigua |
| – | Forewing with postmedial line nearly oblique (not angled) | 26 |
| 26 | Forewing with postmedial line oblique from costa to inner margin | S. umtasorensis sp. nov. |
| – | Forewing with postmedial line straight from costa to radial vein and then oblique to inner margin | S. dzonguensis sp. nov. |