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  6. Leaf Beetles
  7. Aquatic Leaf Beetles
  8. Spade Reed Beetles

genus

Spade Reed Beetles

Plateumaris

Includes
13 native
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Plateumaris is a genus of aquatic leaf beetles in the family Chrysomelidae, subfamily Donaciinae and is Holarctic in distribution. There are 17 described species in North America and 10 species in the Palaearctic Region.

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Children

  • Red Aquatic Leaf Beetle presumed native
  • Shoemaker's Reed Beetle presumed native
  • Lustrous Reed Beetle native
  • Little Reed Beetle presumed native
  • Germar's Reed Beetle presumed native
  • Plateumaris nitida
  • Frost's Reed Beetle presumed native
  • Metallic Reed Beetle presumed native
  • Long-necked Reed Beetle presumed native
  • Flavous-footed Reed Beetle
  • Plateumaris pusilla
  • Dubious Spade Beetle presumed native
  • Fulvous-footed Reed Beetle presumed native
  • Schaeffer's Reed Beetle presumed native
  • Ball's Reed Beetle presumed native
  • Plateumaris diversa presumed native
  • Gold Reed Beetle
  • Plateumaris notmani

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Most observed native spade reed beetles All

Native to the US, by observations.

  • Lustrous Reed Beetle Plateumaris nitida 237 observations

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