Rahona

Rahona
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Lymantriidae
Genus:	Rahona Griveaud, 1975
Species
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Rahona is a genus of moths in the family Lymantriidae. It was named by 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.

Some species of this genus are:

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