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Scientific classification 
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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.
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.
Species
Some species of this genus are:
- Rahona albilunula (Collenette 1936)
- 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, 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- De Prins, J.; De Prins, W. (2017). "Rahona Griveaud, 1976". Afromoths. Archived from the original on September 23, 2023. Retrieved November 17, 2017.
- Collenette, C. L. (1936). "New Lymantriidae from Madagascar". Novitates Zoologicae. 40: 161, plate XII, figure 17.
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