{{Short description|Genus of beetles}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2018}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Plateumaris species. Chrysomelidae. (34949626542).jpg | display_parents = 2 | taxon = Plateumaris | authority = Thomson, 1859 }}
'''''Plateumaris''''' is a genus of aquatic leaf beetles in the family Chrysomelidae, subfamily Donaciinae and is Holarctic in distribution.<ref name="bugref">{{cite web |title=''Plateumaris'' Genus Information |url=https://bugguide.net/node/view/58186 |access-date=2018-02-07 |website=BugGuide.net}}</ref><ref name="itis">{{cite web |title=''Plateumaris'' Report |url=https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=114564 |access-date=2018-02-07 |website=Integrated Taxonomic Information System}}</ref><ref name="eol">{{cite web |title=''Plateumaris'' Overview |url=http://eol.org/pages/110281/overview |access-date=2018-02-07 |website=Encyclopedia of Life}}</ref><ref name="xcit5">{{cite web |title=North American Cryptocephalus species (Chrysomelidae, Cryptocephalinae) |url=http://texasento.net/Crypto.html |publisher=Texas Entomology}}</ref> There are 17 described species in North America and 10 species in the Palaearctic Region.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=University of Alberta. |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/213508 |title=Quaestiones entomologicae |last2=Alberta |first2=University of |date=1990 |publisher=Dept. of Entomology, University of Alberta |volume=v.26 (1990) |location=Edmonton}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Geiser |first=Elisabeth |date=2023-08-30 |title=Revision of the Palaearctic species of the genus Plateumaris C. G. Thomson, 1859 (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Donaciinae) |journal=ZooKeys |language=en |issue=1177 |pages=167–233 |doi=10.3897/zookeys.1177.103214 |doi-access=free |pmid=37692324 |bibcode=2023ZooK.1177..167G |issn=1313-2970}}</ref>
== 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'': {{div col|colwidth=22em}} * ''Plateumaris aurifera'' <small>(J. L. LeConte, 1850)</small> * ''Plateumaris balli'' <small>Askevold, 1991</small> * ''Plateumaris bracata'' <small>(Scopoli, 1772)</small> * ''Plateumaris consimilis'' <small>(Schrank, 1781)</small> * ''Plateumaris diversa'' <small>(Schaeffer, 1925)</small> * ''Plateumaris dubia'' <small>(Schaeffer, 1925)</small> - long-horned leaf beetle * ''Plateumaris flavipes'' <small>(Kirby, 1837)</small> * ''Plateumaris frosti'' <small>(Schaeffer, 1935)</small> * ''Plateumaris fulvipes'' <small>(Lacordaire, 1845)</small> * ''Plateumaris germari'' <small>(Mannerheim, 1843)</small> * ''Plateumaris metallica'' <small>(Ahrens, 1810)</small> * ''Plateumaris neomexicana'' <small>(Schaeffer, 1925)</small> * ''Plateumaris nitida'' <small>(Germar, 1811)</small> * ''Plateumaris notmani'' <small>(Schaeffer, 1925)</small> * ''Plateumaris pusilla'' <small>(Say, 1826)</small> * ''Plateumaris robusta'' <small>(Schaeffer, 1920)</small> * ''Plateumaris rufa'' <small>(Say, 1826)</small> * ''Plateumaris schaefferi'' <small>Askevold, 1991</small> * ''Plateumaris sericea'' <small>(Linnaeus, 1758)</small> * ''Plateumaris shoemakeri'' <small>(Schaeffer, 1925)</small> {{div col end}}
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==Further reading== {{Refbegin}} * {{cite book | editor-last1 = Arnett | editor-first1 = R. H. Jr. | editor-last2 = Thomas | editor-first2 = M. C. | editor-last3 = Skelley | editor-first3 = P. E. | editor-last4 = Frank | editor-first4 = J. H. | date = 21 June 2002 | title = American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea | publisher = CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, Florida. }} * {{cite book | last1 = Arnett | first1 = Ross H. | date = 30 July 2000 | title = American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico | publisher = CRC Press. | isbn = 978-0-8493-0212-1 }} * {{cite book | last1 = White | first1 = Richard E. | date = 1968 | title = A Review of the Genus Cryptocephalus in America North of Mexico | url = https://archive.org/details/bulletinunitedst2901968unit | publisher = Smithsonian Institution Press. }} * {{cite book | last1 = White | first1 = Richard E. | date = 1983 | title = Peterson Field Guides: Beetles | publisher = Houghton Mifflin Company. }} {{Refend}}
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Category:Donaciinae Category:Plateumaris Category:Chrysomelidae genera Category:Taxa named by Carl Gustaf Thomson {{chrysomelidae-stub}}