Lefevrea leroyi
Appearance
Lefevrea leroyi | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Coleoptera |
Suborder: | Polyphaga |
Infraorder: | Cucujiformia |
Family: | Chrysomelidae |
Genus: | Lefevrea |
Species: | L. leroyi
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Binomial name | |
Lefevrea leroyi Burgeon, 1940
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Lefevrea leroyi is a species of leaf beetle. It is distributed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo[1] and Sudan.[2] It was first described by the Belgian entomologist Louis Jules Léon Burgeon in 1940. Host plants for the species include the aerial parts of Gramineae, and Combretum spp.[2]
References
- ^ "African Eumolpinae checklist: Dem. Rep. Congo". chrysomelidae.it. Retrieved November 20, 2015.
- ^ a b 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.