A note on embedding non-Abelian finite flavor groups in continuous groups

A non-Abelian finite flavor group G⊂SO(3) can have double covering G′⊂SU(2) such that G⊄G′. This situation is not contradictory, but quite natural, and we give explicit examples such as G=Dn, G′=Q2n and G=T, G′=T′. This observation can be crucial in particle theory model building.