{{Short description|Genus of leaf beetles from Africa and Asia}} {{Automatic taxobox | taxon = Eryxia | display_parents = 2 | authority = Baly, 1865<ref name="Baly1865">{{cite journal|last=Baly|first=J. S.|year=1865|title=Attempt at a classification of the Eumolpidae. (Cont.)|url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13388035|journal=The Journal of Entomology|volume=2|pages=433–442}}</ref> | type_species = ''Eryxia baikiei'' | type_species_authority = Baly, 1865<ref name="Baly1865"/> }}
'''''Eryxia''''' is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae.<ref>{{cite web|title=Eryxia|url=http://www.chrysomelidae.it/afr_Eum/genere_Eryxia.html|website=African Eumolpinae site|access-date=21 July 2018}}</ref> It is distributed in Africa and Western Asia.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Moseyko|first1=A. G.|last2=Sprecher-Uebersax|first2=E.|year=2010|chapter=Eumolpinae|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qt8zDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA620|editor-last1=Löbl|editor-first1=I.|editor-last2=Smetana|editor-first2=A.|title=Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Volume 6. Chrysomeloidea|location=Stenstrup, Denmark|publisher=Apollo Books|pages=619–643|isbn=978-87-88757-84-2}}</ref>
==Species== Subgenus '''''Eryxia''''' <small>Baly, 1865</small>: * ''Eryxia annobioides'' <small>Escalera, 1914</small> – Morocco * ''Eryxia baikiei'' <small>Baly, 1865</small><ref name="Baly1865"/> – Mali, Senegal * ''Eryxia cinerascens'' <small>(Fairmaire, 1894)</small><ref name="Zoia2023">{{cite journal|last=Zoia|first=S.|year=2023|title=Considerations on the genus ''Syagrus'' Chapuis 1874 and the taxa ascribed to it (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Eumolpinae)|journal=Natural History Sciences|volume=10|issue=Supplement 1|pages=37–44|doi=10.4081/nhs.2023.691|doi-access=free}}</ref> – Senegal * ''Eryxia confusa'' <small>Selman, 1972</small><ref name="Selman1972">{{cite journal|last=Selman|first=B. J.|year=1972|title=Eumolpinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)|journal=Exploration Parc National de la Garamba. Mission H. De Saeger|volume=55|pages=1–95}}</ref> – Congo, DR Congo * ''Eryxia dentipes'' <small>Pic, 1940</small><ref name="Pic1940">{{cite journal|last=Pic|first=M.|year=1940|title=Nouvelle série de Coléoptères d'Angola|url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/43723476|journal=Revue suisse de Zoologie|volume=47|issue=17|pages=359–365|doi=10.5962/bhl.part.144765}}</ref> – Angola * ''Eryxia gracilipes'' <small>Lefèvre, 1890</small><ref name="Lefevre1890">{{cite journal|last=Lefèvre|first=E.|year=1890|title=Note sur trois espèces d'Eumolpidae|url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4244850|journal=Bulletin des séances et bulletin bibliographique de la Société entomologique de France|volume=1890|pages=LVII}}</ref> – Yemen * ''Eryxia holosericea'' <small>(Klug, 1835)</small><ref name="Klug1835">{{cite book|last=Klug|first=J. C. F.|year=1835|chapter=Insekten|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bYVZAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA49|editor-last=Erman|editor-first=A.|title=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|publisher=G. Reimer|place=Berlin|pages=27–52}}</ref> – DR Congo, Yemen, Mali, Senegal, Gabon, Congo, Ivory Coast * ''Eryxia lineaticollis'' <small>Pic, 1938</small> * ''Eryxia major'' <small>Burgeon, 1941</small> – DR Congo * ''Eryxia ritchiei'' <small>Bryant, 1933</small><ref name="Bryant1933">{{cite journal|last=Bryant|first=G. E.|title=Some New Phytophaga from Africa|year=1933|journal=Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London. Series B, Taxonomy|volume=2|issue=11|pages=250–255|doi=10.1111/j.1365-3113.1993.tb00961.x |bibcode=1933SysEn...2..250B }}</ref> – Tanzania, Sudan * ''Eryxia subtessellata'' <small>Pic, 1938</small> Subgenus '''''Azerberyxia''''' <small>Romantsov & Moseyko, 2020</small><ref>{{cite journal|last1=Romantsov|first1=P.V.|last2=Moseyko|first2=A.G.|year=2020|title=A new subgenus and species of Eumolpinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) from Azerbaijan, with faunistic notes on adjacent countries|journal=Zootaxa|volume=4853|issue=1|pages=139–145|doi=10.11646/zootaxa.4853.1.10|pmid=33056391 |s2cid=222824162 }}</ref> * ''Eryxia serratotibialis'' <small>Romantsov & Moseyko, 2020</small> – Azerbaijan
Species moved to ''Colasposoma'':<ref name="Zoia2012">{{cite journal|first=S.|last=Zoia|year=2012|title=Eumolpinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) of Socotra Island|url=http://www.aemnp.eu/PDF/52_s2/52_s2_449.pdf|journal=Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae|volume=52|issue=supplementum 2|pages=449–501}}</ref> * ''Eryxia coracina'' <small>Lopatin, 1996</small> * ''Eryxia grandis'' <small>Lefèvre, 1890</small><ref name="Lefevre1890"/> * ''Eryxia socotrana'' <small>Gahan, 1903</small>
Species moved to ''Melindea'':<ref name="Zoia2019">{{cite journal|last=Zoia|first=S.|year=2019|title=Nomenclature changes in African Eumolpinae with reference to type specimens preserved in the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)|journal=Annales de la Société Entomologique de France |series=Nouvelle Série|volume=55|issue=1|pages=61–86|doi=10.1080/00379271.2018.1556119|bibcode=2019AnSEF..55...61Z |s2cid=155689938}}</ref> * ''Eryxia virescens'' <small>Lefèvre, 1885</small><ref name="Lefevre1885">{{cite journal|last=Lefèvre|first=É.|year=1885|title=Eumolpidarum hucusque cognitarum catalogus, sectionum conspectu systematico, generum sicut et specierum nonnullarum novarum descriptionibus adjunctis|url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27434526|journal=Mémoires de la Société Royale des Sciences de Liège|series=2|volume=11|issue=16|pages=1–172}}</ref>
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Category:Eumolpinae Category:Eryxia Category:Chrysomelidae genera Category:Taxa named by Joseph Sugar Baly Category:Beetles of Africa Category:Beetles of Asia
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