Rahona
| Rahona | |
|---|---|
|  Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia | 
| Phylum: | Arthropoda | 
| Class: | Insecta | 
| Order: | Lepidoptera | 
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea | 
| Family: | Lymantriidae | 
| Genus: |  Rahona Griveaud, 1975  | 
| Species | |
| 
 see species list  | |
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. Société entomologique de France. 80 (223). 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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