Lahejia Explained

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Lahejia is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae.^[1] It is known from Africa and Asia. It is related to Malegia.

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). 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). In 2010, two further species were moved to the genus from Microlypesthes and Malegia in the sixth volume of the Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera.^[2]

Species

• Lahejia aenea (Chen, 1940)
• Lahejia cinerascens Gahan, 1896
• Lahejia fulvipes (Jacoby, 1898)^[3]
• Lahejia jacobsoni (Sumakov, 1901)
• Lahejia lefevrei (Jacoby, 1897)
• Lahejia minuta (Weise, 1919)
• Lahejia schimperi (Lefèvre, 1891)^[4]
• Lahejia tibialis (Jacoby, 1901)^[5]
• Lahejia turkestanica (Reitter, 1890)^[6]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Lahejia. African Eumolpinae site. 14 August 2018.
2. Book: Moseyko. A. G.. Sprecher-Uebersax. E.. 2010. New nomenclatural and taxonomic acts, and comments. Chrysomelidae: Eumolpinae. https://books.google.com/books?id=qt8zDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA80. Löbl. I.. Smetana. A.. Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Volume 6. Chrysomeloidea. Stenstrup, Denmark. Apollo Books. 80–83. 978-87-88757-84-2.
3. M.. Jacoby. 1898. Additions to the knowledge of the Phytophagous Coleoptera of Africa. Part I. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1898. 212–242.
4. Lefèvre. E.. 1891. Descriptions d'espèces nouvelles de Clytrides et d'Eumolpides. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique. 35. CCXLVIII–CCLXXIX.
5. M.. Jacoby. 1901. A further contribution to our knowledge of African Phytophagous Coleoptera.. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London. 49. 3. 209–256. 10.1111/j.1365-2311.1901.tb02386.x.
6. Reitter. E.. 1890. Beschreibungen neuer Coleopteren aus Europa, dem Kaukasus, Russisch-Armenien und Turkestan. Wiener Entomologische Zeitung. 9. 189–198.