Rahona Explained

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]

Notes and References

1. Griveaud . Paul . 1975 . Descriptions préliminaires de nouveaux genres et espèces de Lymantriidae malgaches [Lep.] ]. Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France . Société entomologique de France . 80 . 7–8 . 225–232 . 10.3406/bsef.1975.21476 . 1975AnSEF..80..225G . fr.
2. Pitkin . Brian . Jenkins . Paul . November 5, 2004 . Rahona Griveaud, 1976 . . 10.5519/s93616qw . Butterflies and Moths of the World . August 8, 2018.
3. Forster . Catherine A. . Sampson, Scott D. . Chiappe, Luis M. . Krause, David W. . 1998b . Genus Correction. . Science . 280 . 5361 . 179 . 1998Sci...280..179F . 10.1126/science.280.5361.179g . 220097569.
4. Web site: De Prins . J. . De Prins . W. . 2017 . Rahona Griveaud, 1976 . November 17, 2017 . Afromoths . https://web.archive.org/web/20230923102713/https://www.afromoths.net/genus/show/712590 . 2023-09-23.