Rahona

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Rahona
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
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 occure in central Africa or Madagascar.

The name was inadvertently used again in 1998 for a fossil species of Mesozoic bird, 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

  1. Griveaud (1976). Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France (Société entomologique de France) 80 (223). 
  2. Forster, Catherine A.; Sampson, Scott D.; Chiappe, Luis M. & Krause, David W. (1998b). "Genus Correction.". Science 280 (5361): p. 179. doi:10.1126/science.280.5361.179g. 
  3. afromoths
  4. Collenette, C. L. (1936). "New Lymantriidae from Madagascar". Novitates Zoologicae (Novit. zool.) 40 (161): 161 plate XII,figure 17. 

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