Plateumaris

Plateumaris
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Cucujiformia
Family:	Chrysomelidae
Subfamily:	Donaciinae
Tribe:	Plateumarini
Genus:	Plateumaris Thomson, 1859

Plateumaris is a genus of aquatic leaf beetles in the family Chrysomelidae, subfamily Donaciinae and is Holarctic in distribution. ^{[1] [2] [3] [4]} There are 17 described species in North America and 10 species in the Palaearctic Region. ^{[5] [6]}

Description

Species of the genus Plateumaris are recognized by the lack of pubescence above the procoxa, rounded and declivous elytral apices with sutural area apically sinuate. Females have a strongly sclerotized ovipositor that looks like a pointed shovel, often protruding from the abdomen - hence the name “spade reed beetles”.

Distribution and habitat

Adults are found along margins of water bodies on emergent aquatic plants, often in large numbers. Larvae and pupae are found attached to the roots of these plants.

Species

The following species are recognised in the genus Plateumaris:

• Plateumaris aurifera (J. L. LeConte, 1850)
• Plateumaris balli Askevold, 1991
• Plateumaris bracata (Scopoli, 1772)
• Plateumaris consimilis (Schrank, 1781)
• Plateumaris diversa (Schaeffer, 1925)
• Plateumaris dubia (Schaeffer, 1925) - long-horned leaf beetle
• Plateumaris flavipes (Kirby, 1837)
• Plateumaris frosti (Schaeffer, 1935)
• Plateumaris fulvipes (Lacordaire, 1845)
• Plateumaris germari (Mannerheim, 1843)
• Plateumaris metallica (Ahrens, 1810)
• Plateumaris neomexicana (Schaeffer, 1925)
• Plateumaris nitida (Germar, 1811)
• Plateumaris notmani (Schaeffer, 1925)
• Plateumaris pusilla (Say, 1826)
• Plateumaris robusta (Schaeffer, 1920)
• Plateumaris rufa (Say, 1826)
• Plateumaris schaefferi Askevold, 1991
• Plateumaris sericea (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Plateumaris shoemakeri (Schaeffer, 1925)

References

1. "Plateumaris Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 7 February 2018.
2. "Plateumaris Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 7 February 2018.
3. "Plateumaris Overview". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 7 February 2018.
4. "North American Cryptocephalus species (Chrysomelidae, Cryptocephalinae)". Texas Entomology.
5. University of Alberta.; Alberta, University of (1990). Quaestiones entomologicae. Vol. v.26 (1990). Edmonton: Dept. of Entomology, University of Alberta.
6. Geiser, Elisabeth (30 August 2023). "Revision of the Palaearctic species of the genus Plateumaris C. G. Thomson, 1859 (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Donaciinae)". ZooKeys (1177): 167–233. Bibcode:2023ZooK.1177..167G. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1177.103214 . ISSN   1313-2970. PMID   37692324.

Further reading

• Arnett, R. H. Jr.; Thomas, M. C.; Skelley, P. E.; Frank, J. H., eds. (21 June 2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, Florida.
• Arnett, Ross H. (30 July 2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press. ISBN   978-0-8493-0212-1.
• White, Richard E. (1968). A Review of the Genus Cryptocephalus in America North of Mexico. Smithsonian Institution Press.
• White, Richard E. (1983). Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. Houghton Mifflin Company.