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 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]

References

  1. Griveaud (1976). Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France (Société entomologique de France) 80 (223). Missing or empty |title= (help)
  2. 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.
  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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