Lahejia is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae. 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.
Species Lahejia aenea (Chen, 1940) – China (Guangdong, Hebei, Jiangsu, Sichuan), Russian Far East Lahejia cinerascens Gahan, 1896 – Yemen, Saudi Arabia Lahejia fulvipes (Jacoby, 1898) – South Africa, Chad Lahejia jacobsoni (Sumakov, 1901) – Turkmenistan Lahejia lefevrei (Jacoby, 1897) – South Africa Lahejia minuta (Weise, 1919) – Tanzania Lahejia schimperi (Lefèvre, 1891) – Ethiopia, Tanzania, South Africa Lahejia tibialis (Jacoby, 1901) – South Africa Lahejia turkestanica (Reitter, 1890) – Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
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