Eka

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Ordo: Coleoptera
Subordo: Polyphaga
Infraordo: Cucujiformia
Cladus: Phytophaga
Superfamilia: Chrysomeloidea

Familia: Chrysomelidae
Subfamilia: Eumolpinae
Tribus: Bromiini
Genus: Eka
Species: E. nigra
Name

Eka Maulik, 1931: 244

Type species: Eka nigra Maulik, 1931, by original designation.
References
Primary references

Maulik, S. 1931. Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae: Eumolpinae, Galerucinae and Halticinae. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 2 Zoology 19(2): 241–260. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.1931.tb00128.x Paywall.

Links

Eka. African Eumolpinae site.

Eka is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae.[2][3] It contains only one species, Eka nigra, endemic to Silhouette Island in the Seychelles, in the low country near the coast. Both the genus and species were described by the Indian entomologist Samarendra Maulik, from a specimen collected by the Percy Sladen Trust Expedition to the Indian Ocean in 1908. The generic name comes from the Sanskrit word एक (éka), meaning "single", "alone". The genus is related to Trichochrysea.[1]
Description

The body is oblong-ovate and colored black, with a very faint purplish tinge. The four segments at the base of the antennae are coloured brown, and the remaining seven segments are coloured black. The legs are brown mixed with blackish colour, the tarsi more blackish. The beetles are entirely covered in white erect hairs on the upper and under sides; those on the elytra are arranged in longitudinal rows and each hair arises out of a puncture. The length of the beetles are 1.75 mm.[1]
References

Maulik, S. (1931). "Coleoptera, Chrysomelidæ: Eumolpinæ, Galerucinæ and Halticinæ". Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. 2, Zoology. 19 (2): 241–260. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1931.tb00128.x.
"Eka". African Eumolpinae site. Retrieved 31 July 2018.
Gerlach, Justin (2009). The Coleoptera of the Seychelles islands. Bulgaria: Pensoft Publishers. ISBN 978-954-642-498-3.