Thalaina paronycha (Lower, 1900)
 (formerly known as Amelora tetraclada)
DIPTYCHINI,   ENNOMINAE,   GEOMETRIDAE,   GEOMETROIDEA
 
Don Herbison-Evans
(donherbisonevans@yahoo.com)
and
Stella Crossley

Thalaina paronycha
(Photo: courtesy of Jesse & Peter Koch, Lake Hart, South Australia)

The adult moths of this species have white wings, with each forewing having brown lines around all the edges, and brown lines spelling a large capital letter 'N'. The hindwings each have a submarginal irregular grey patch. The wingspan is about 4 cms.

Thalaina paronycha
(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group, Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, University of Guelph)

The species occurs in

  • New South Wales,
  • South Australia, and
  • Western Australia.

    Further reading :

    Oswald B. Lower,
    Descriptions of new Australian Lepidoptera,
    Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales,
    Volume 25 (1900), p. 407.

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    (written 17 May 2021)