Rahona

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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

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

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]

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References

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  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. Archived from the original on September 23, 2023. Retrieved November 17, 2017.
  5. Collenette, C. L. (1936). "New Lymantriidae from Madagascar". Novitates Zoologicae. 40: 161, plate XII, figure 17.