Thalaina selenaea, Doubleday, 1845

Young, Catherine J., 2006, Molecular relationships of the Australian Ennominae (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) and implications for the phylogeny of the Geometridae from molecular and morphological data, Zootaxa 1264 (1), pp. 1-147 : 1-147

Thalaina selenaea and Paralaea porphyrinaria

The relationship between these two robust­bodied Australian nacophorines species was moderately well supported and the sequence divergence between the two was only 1.3% (28S D2) (Fig. 10). These species, together with several other large robust­bodied Australian nacophorines form a well­defined group on morphology and will be discussed in a further paper on morphological relationships in the Nacophorini .