Lahejia
Genus of leaf beetles
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Lahejia is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae.[5] It is known from Africa and Asia. It is related to Malegia.[3]
| Lahejia | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Infraorder: | Cucujiformia |
| Family: | Chrysomelidae |
| Subfamily: | Eumolpinae |
| Tribe: | Bromiini |
| Genus: | Lahejia Gahan, 1896[1] |
| Type species | |
| Lahejia cinerascens | |
| Synonyms[2][3] | |
Taxonomy
The genus was first created in 1896 by Charles Joseph Gahan for the single species Lahejia cinerascens, which was collected by Lieutenant-Colonel John William Yerbury from Lahij, Yemen (spelled as "Lahej" in the paper).[1] In 2002, Stefano Zoia determined that Pseudomalegia (a genus created by Martin Jacoby in 1897) was a synonym of Lahejia, transferring to the latter genus six more species (while a seventh became a synonym of L. cinerascens).[3] In 2010, two further species were moved to the genus from Microlypesthes and Malegia in the sixth volume of the Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera.[6]
Species
- Lahejia aenea (Chen, 1940) – China (Guangdong, Hebei, Jiangsu, Sichuan), Russian Far East
- Lahejia cinerascens Gahan, 1896[1] – Yemen, Saudi Arabia
- Lahejia fulvipes (Jacoby, 1898)[7] – South Africa, Chad
- Lahejia jacobsoni (Sumakov, 1901) – Turkmenistan
- Lahejia lefevrei (Jacoby, 1897)[4] – South Africa
- Lahejia minuta (Weise, 1919) – Tanzania
- Lahejia schimperi (Lefèvre, 1891)[8] – Ethiopia, Tanzania, South Africa
- Lahejia tibialis (Jacoby, 1901)[9] – South Africa
- Lahejia turkestanica (Reitter, 1890)[10] – Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan