[1][2][3] It was named by Igor Vasilii Kozhanchikov as Gynaephora sincera in his 1950 compendium of the Orgyiini moths of the USSR (which included these genera at the time).

[3] The first of the only specimens of this species ever found was collected on the 29th of June in 1909 at 3600m elevation at a location Kozhanchikov calls the Map Pass in the Pamir Mountains.

[1] According to Trofimova the label on the specimen is spelled slightly differently and that it refers to the Mats River in the Wakhan Range in southern Gorno-Badakhshan in eastern Tajikistan.

[3] Two more males were collected 19 July 1961 at 3200 m elevation at a location called "Angoudar" in the mountains around the city of Khorugh, also in southern Gorno-Badakhshan.

[3] Its distribution is thus sandwiched between known populations of L. selenophora in central Afghanistan to the south and those to the north in the further stretches of the Pamirs.