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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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 |
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
editSome 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
editWikispecies has information related to Rahona.
- ^ Griveaud, Paul (1975). "Descriptions préliminaires de nouveaux genres et espèces de Lymantriidae malgaches [Lep.]". Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France (in French). 80 (7–8). Société entomologique de France: 225–232. Bibcode:1975AnSEF..80..225G. doi:10.3406/bsef.1975.21476.
- ^ Pitkin, Brian; Jenkins, Paul (November 5, 2004). "Rahona Griveaud, 1976". Butterflies and Moths of the World. Natural History Museum, London. doi:10.5519/s93616qw. Retrieved August 8, 2018.
- ^ 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.
- ^ De Prins, J.; De Prins, W. (2017). "Rahona Griveaud, 1976". Afromoths. Archived from the original on September 23, 2023. Retrieved November 17, 2017.
- ^ Collenette, C. L. (1936). "New Lymantriidae from Madagascar". Novitates Zoologicae. 40: 161, plate XII, figure 17.
