Donaciinae

Donaciinae
Donacia versicolorea
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Cucujiformia
Family:	Chrysomelidae
Subfamily:	Donaciinae Kirby, 1837

The Donaciinae are a subfamily of the leaf beetles, or Chrysomelidae, characterised by densely pubescent underside, generally club-shaped hind femora with one or two ventral teeth, and distinctly long antennae. ^{[1] [2]} They are found in mainly the Northern Hemisphere, with some species found in the Africa and Australasia. ^[3]

Plateumaris

Donacia palmata

Life cycle

Female Donaciinae lay eggs between aquatic plant stems and leaf sheaths, or on the underside of floating leaves. ^[4] When larvae hatch they are aquatic, and attach themselves to underwater stems and roots of their plant hosts. Host plants of most species consist of diverse plants along the margin of water bodies such as slow moving streams, ponds, and lakes. A few species are found on floating-leaved plants such as Potamogeton, while species of Donacia s.str. are found on the floating leaves of water lilies and Brasenia. Adults live in vegetation bordering ponds, marshes, lakes, ^[1] and brackish water environments. ^[5] While most Donaciinae have the ability to fly, fully aquatic and flightless species such as Macroplea mutica exhibit the ability to disperse long distance by surviving the passage though the gut of water birds. ^[4]

Genera

These six genera belong to the subfamily Donaciinae:

• Donacia Fabricius, 1775 ^{i c g b}
• Donaciella Reitter, 1920 ^{i c g}
• Macroplea Samouelle, 1819 ^{i c g}
• Neohaemonia Székessy, 1941 ^{i c g b}
• Plateumaris Thomson, 1859 ^{i c g b}
• Poecilocera Schaeffer, 1919 ^{i c g b}

Data sources: i = ITIS, ^[6] c = Catalogue of Life, ^[7] g = GBIF, ^[8] b = Bugguide.net ^[1]

References

1. "Donaciinae Subfamily Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-05-04.
2. "North American Cryptocephalus species (Chrysomelidae, Cryptocephalinae)". Texas Entomology. Retrieved 2018-05-04.
3. Steffan, Wallace A. (1979-09-28). "New Culex (Acallyntrum) from the Papuan Subregion (Diptera: Culicidae)1" . Journal of Medical Entomology. 16 (2): 133–139. doi:10.1093/jmedent/16.2.133. ISSN   1938-2928.
4. LAUX, JAN-JAKOB; KÖLSCH, GREGOR (2014-03-05). "Potential for passive internal dispersal: eggs of an aquatic leaf beetle have been known to survive passage through the digestive system of mallards" . Ecological Entomology. 39 (3): 391–394. doi:10.1111/een.12097. ISSN   0307-6946. S2CID   83827948.
5. Kölsch, Gregor; Krause, Almut; Goetz, Nele; Plagmann, Silke (2010-07-31). "The salinity preference of members of the genus Macroplea (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Donaciinae), fully aquatic leaf beetles that occur in brackish water" . Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology. 390 (2): 203–209. doi:10.1016/j.jembe.2010.04.026. ISSN   0022-0981.
6. "Donaciinae Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-05-04.
7. "Catalogue of Life" . Retrieved 2018-05-04.
8. "GBIF" . Retrieved 2018-05-04.

Further reading

• Arnett, R.H. Jr.; Thomas, M. C.; Skelley, P. E.; Frank, J. H., eds. (2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press. ISBN   978-0849309540.
• Blatchley, W.S. (1910). An illustrated descriptive catalogue of the Coleoptera, beetles (exclusive of the Rhynchophora) known to occur in Indiana. Nature Pub.
• Bouchard, Patrice; Bousquet, Yves; Davies, Anthony E.; Alonso-Zarazaga, Miguel A.; et al. (2011). "Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta)". ZooKeys (88). Pensoft Publishers: 1–972. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.88.807 . ISSN   1313-2989. PMC   3088472 . PMID   21594053.
• Clark, S.M.; Le Doux, D.G.; Riley, E.G.; Gilbert, A.J.; et al. (2004). Host Plants of Leaf Beetle Species Occurring in the United States and Canada. Coleopterists Society. ISBN   9780972608732.
• Crotch, G.R. (1873). Check list of the Coleoptera of America, north of Mexico. Naturalists' Agency. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.38811 . ISBN   0665070772.
• Evans, Arthur V.; Hogue, James N. (2006). Field Guide to Beetles of California. University of California Press. ISBN   978-0520246577.
• Lawrence, J.F.; Newton Jr., A.F. (1995). Pakaluk, James; Slipinski, Stanislaw Adam (eds.). Families and subfamilies of Coleoptera (with selected genera, notes, references and data on family-group names). Biology, Phylogeny, and Classification of Coleoptera: Papers Celebrating the 80th Birthday of Roy A. Crowson. Vol. 2. Muzeum i Instytut Zoologii PAN. pp. 779–1006. ISBN   83-85192-34-4.
• LeConte, J.L. (1861). Classification of the Coleoptera of North America. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. Vol. 3. Smithsonian Institution. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.38459 . ISBN   0665100558.
• Leng, Charles W. (1920). Catalogue of the Coleoptera of America, North of Mexico. John D. Sherman, Jr. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.8777 .
• Riley, Edward G.; Clark, Shawn M.; Gilbert, Arthur J. (2001). "New records, nomenclatural changes, and taxonomic notes for select North American leaf beetles". Insecta Mundi. 15 (1 ed.): 1–17. Archived from the original on 2019-03-29. Retrieved 2018-05-04.
• Riley, Edward G.; Clark, Shawn M.; Seeno, Terry N. (2003). Catalog of the leaf beetles of America north of Mexico (Coleoptera: Megalopodidae, Orsodacnidae and Chrysomelidae, excluding Bruchinae). Special Publication. The Coleopterists Society. ISBN   0-9726087-1-0.

External links

• Media related to Donaciinae at Wikimedia Commons
• Data related to Donaciinae at Wikispecies