Rahona
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Erebidae |
| Subfamily: | Lymantriinae |
| Genus: | Rahona Griveaud, 1975 |
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Rahona is a genus of moths in the family Lymantriidae. It was named by Griveaud in 1975.[1]
Most of the species of this genus occur in central Africa or Madagascar.
The name was inadvertently used again in 1998 for a fossil species of Mesozoic bird/Avian theropod Rahona ostromi, by Catherine Forster and colleagues. When they discovered that the name had already been used by Griveaud, they renamed the fossil Rahonavis.[2]
Species
Some species of this genus are:[3]
- Rahona albilunula (Collenette 1936)[4]
- Rahona albimaculata Dall'Asta, 1981
- Rahona bicornuta Dall'Asta, 1981
- Rahona brunnea Dall'Asta, 1981
- Rahona brunneicubitata Dall'Asta, 1981
- Rahona caeruleibasalis Dall'Asta, 1981
- Rahona collenettei Dall'Asta, 1981
- Rahona compseuta (Collenette, 1939)
- Rahona hayesi Dall'Asta, 1981
- Rahona hecqui Dall'Asta, 1981
- Rahona hypnotoides (Collenette, 1957)
- Rahona ladburyi (Bethune-Baker, 1911)
- Rahona nigrofumata Dall'Asta, 1981
- Rahona seitzi (Hering, 1926)
- Rahona stauropa Dall'Asta, 1981
- Rahona stauropoeides (Collenette, 1960)
- Rahona subzairensis Dall'Asta, 1981
- Rahona unica Dall'Asta, 1981
- Rahona watsoni Dall'Asta, 1981
- Rahona zairensis Dall'Asta, 1981
References
- ^ Griveaud (1976). Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France. 80 (223). Société entomologique de France.
{{cite journal}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ^ Forster, Catherine A.; Sampson, Scott D.; Chiappe, Luis M.; Krause, David W. (1998b). "Genus Correction". Science. 280 (5361): 179. doi:10.1126/science.280.5361.179g.
- ^ afromoths
- ^ Collenette, C. L. (1936). "New Lymantriidae from Madagascar". Novitates Zoologicae (Novit. zool.). 40 (161): 161 plate XII,figure 17.
External links
Wikispecies has information related to Rahona.
- Natural History Museum.uk: Lepidoptera genus database entry for Rahona
- AfroMoths.net: Rahona entry
Media related to Lymantriinae
(Lymantriidae) at Wikimedia Commons
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