''Zohrana'' is a genus of
leaf beetle
The insects of the beetle family Chrysomelidae are commonly known as leaf beetles, and include over 37,000 (and probably at least 50,000) species in more than 2,500 genera, making up one of the largest and most commonly encountered of all beetle ...
s in the subfamily
Eumolpinae
The Eumolpinae are a subfamily of the leaf beetles, or Chrysomelidae. It is one of the largest subfamilies of leaf beetles, including more than 500 genera and 7000 species. They are oval, and convex in form, and measure up to 10 mm in size. ...
.
It is known from
Africa
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. It is also sometimes known as ''Zohranus''.
The genus was originally named ''Liniscus'' by
Édouard Lefèvre in 1885; however, this name was preoccupied by ''Liniscus''
Dujardin, 1844 (a
nematode
The nematodes ( or grc-gre, Νηματώδη; la, Nematoda) or roundworms constitute the phylum Nematoda (also called Nemathelminthes), with plant-Parasitism, parasitic nematodes also known as eelworms. They are a diverse animal phylum inhab ...
genus), so it was renamed to ''Zohrana'' by N. A. Aslam in 1968.
Species
* ''
Zohrana fasciolata''
( Fairmaire, 1893)
* ''
Zohrana koulmannensis''
(Selman, 1963)
* ''
Zohrana puncticollis''
(Bryant, 1959)
* ''
Zohrana rhodesiana''
(Achard, 1925)
* ''
Zohrana sansibarica''
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Surnames Lefèvre
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* ''
Zohrana semistriata''
( Pic, 1950)
* ''
Zohrana semiviridis''
( Pic, 1939)
* ''
Zohrana substriatipennis''
( Pic, 1939)
* ''
Zohrana substriata''
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* ''
Zohrana sudanica''
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* ''
Zohrana testacea''
( Pic, 1939)
* ''
Zohrana usambarica''
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References
Eumolpinae
Chrysomelidae genera
Beetles of Africa
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