''Eryxia cinerascens'' is a species of

leaf beetle The beetle family Chrysomelidae, commonly known as leaf beetles, includes over 37,000 (and probably at least 50,000) species in more than 2,500 genera, making it one of the largest and most commonly encountered of all beetle families. Numerous s ...

from

Senegal Senegal, officially the Republic of Senegal, is the westernmost country in West Africa, situated on the Atlantic Ocean coastline. It borders Mauritania to Mauritania–Senegal border, the north, Mali to Mali–Senegal border, the east, Guinea t ...

, described by

Léon Fairmaire Léon Marc Herminie Fairmaire (29 June 1820 – 1 April 1906) was a French entomologist. As a specialist in Coleoptera, he assembled an immense collection comparable with that of Pierre François Marie Auguste Dejean (1780–1845). This is in the ...

in 1894. It was originally described as a species of the genus '' Syagrus''. It was transferred to the genus '' Eryxia'' in 2023, based on the original description and Fairmaire's statement that the species resembles '' Eryxia holosericea''.

References

Eumolpinae Insects of West Africa Beetles of Africa Beetles described in 1894 Taxa named by Léon Fairmaire {{Eumolpinae-stub