Rahona

Rahona is a genus of moths in the subfamily Lymantriinae. It was named by Paul Griveaud in 1975.[1][2]

Rahona
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Subfamily: Lymantriinae
Genus: Rahona
Griveaud, 1975

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 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.[3]

Species

Some species of this genus are:[4]

  • Rahona albilunula (Collenette 1936)[5]
  • 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
  1. Griveaud (1976). Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France. Société entomologique de France. 80 (223). {{cite journal}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  2. Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul (November 5, 2004). "Rahona Griveaud, 1976". Butterflies and Moths of the World. Natural History Museum, London. Retrieved August 8, 2018.
  3. Forster, Catherine A.; Sampson, Scott D.; Chiappe, Luis M.; Krause, David W. (1998b). "Genus Correction". Science. 280 (5361): 179. Bibcode:1998Sci...280..179F. doi:10.1126/science.280.5361.179g. S2CID 220097569.
  4. De Prins, J.; De Prins, W. (2017). "Rahona Griveaud, 1976". Afromoths. Retrieved November 17, 2017.
  5. Collenette, C. L. (1936). "New Lymantriidae from Madagascar". Novitates Zoologicae. 40 (161): 161 plate XII, figure 17.
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