Eryxia holosericea

Eryxia holosericea
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Cucujiformia
Family:	Chrysomelidae
Genus:	Eryxia
Species:	E. holosericea
Binomial name
Eryxia holosericea (Klug, 1835) [1]
Synonyms [2] [3]
Eumolpus holosericeus Klug, 1835 Pachnephorus holosericeus Karsch, 1882

Eryxia holosericea is a species of leaf beetle. It is distributed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, ^[4] Yemen, ^[5] Mali, ^[6] Senegal, ^[7] Gabon, the Republic of the Congo ^[8] and Ivory Coast. ^[9] It was described by the German entomologist Johann Christoph Friedrich Klug in 1835.

References

1. Klug, J. C. F. (1835). "Insekten". In Erman, A. (ed.). Reise um die Erde durch Nord-Asien und die beiden Oceane in den Jahren 1828, 1829 und 1830. Verzeichnis von Thieren und Pfalnzen, welche auf einer Reise um die Erde gesammelt wurden von Adolph Erman. Berlin: G. Reimer. pp. 27–52.
2. Lefèvre, É. (1885). "Eumolpidarum hucusque cognitarum catalogus, sectionum conspectu systematico, generum sicut et specierum nonnullarum novarum descriptionibus adjunctis". Mémoires de la Société Royale des Sciences de Liège. 2. 11 (16): 1–172.
3. Zoia, S. (2007). "A revision of the Pachnephorus from the Afrotropical Region (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae)" (PDF). Fragmenta Entomologica. 39 (1): 1–156. doi: 10.4081/fe.2007.128 .
4. "African Eumolpinae checklist: Dem. Rep. Congo". chrysomelidae.it. Retrieved November 20, 2015.
5. "African Eumolpinae checklist: Yemen". chrysomelidae.it. Retrieved August 1, 2016.
6. "African Eumolpinae checklist: Mali". chrysomelidae.it. Retrieved October 30, 2016.
7. "African Eumolpinae checklist: Senegal". chrysomelidae.it. Retrieved October 30, 2016.
8. Selman, B. J. (1973). "Coleoptera from North-East Africa. Chrysomelidae: Eumolpinae. (Zoological contribution from the Finnish expeditions to the Sudan No. 34)". Notulae Entomologicae. 53 (4): 159–166.
9. Selman, B.J. (1973). "Contribution à la connaissance de la faune entomologique de la Côte-d'Ivoire (J. Decelle, 1961-1964). 49. Coleoptera Chrysomelidae Eumolpinae". Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique Africaines. 87 (2): 311–329.