DONACIINAE Kirby, 1837
(reed beetles)

DONACIINAE (reed beetles) may be included in 'feeds on' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

DONACIINAE (reed beetles) may be included in 'fed on by' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

Subtaxon Rank Featured
subtaxa
No of
interactions
No of
references
Genus 15 subtaxa 103 trophisms 5 references
Species 15 trophisms 1 references
Species 8 trophisms
Genus 4 subtaxa 38 trophisms 1 references
Taxonomic hierarchy:
SubfamilyDONACIINAE (reed beetles)
FamilyCHRYSOMELIDAE (leaf and flea beetles)
SuperfamilyCHRYSOMELOIDEA (leaf, longhorn and seed beetles)
OrderCOLEOPTERA (beetles)
Division Endopterygota (bees, beetles, flies, moths and other insects with wings developing internally)
InfraclassNeoptera (bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects)
SubclassPTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
ClassINSECTA (true insects)
SubphylumHEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
PhylumARTHROPODA (arthropods)
SuperphylumECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
CladeBilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
SubkingdomEUMETAZOA (metazoans)
KingdomANIMALIA (animals)
DomainEukaryota (eukaryotes)
LifeBIOTA (living things)
NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for DONACIINAE (reed beetles)

Identification Works

AuthorYearTitleSource
Bratton, J. & Greenwood, M. 1997 British reed beetles, Plateumaris and Donacia (Chrysomelidae): an identification aid using pronotum surface characters Latissimus: 11-14.
Denton, J. 2013 Atlas of VC12 aquatic coleoptera 70pp
Hackston, M. 2014 Subfamily Donaciinae
Menzies, I.A. & Cox, M.L. 1996 Notes on the natural history, distribution and identification of British reed beetles BR. J. ENT. NAT. HIST. Vol 09: 137-162.

DONACIINAE (reed beetles) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

General Literature

Literature listed under the following higher taxa may also be relevant to DONACIINAE (reed beetles):

Creative Commons License
This website is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Licence.

Unless otherwise expressly stated, all original material on the BioInfo website by Malcolm Storey is licensed under the above Creative Commons Licence.

BioInfo - Wildlife Information (UK)