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Plateumaris rufa
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Polyphaga
Infraorder:	Cucujiformia
Family:	Chrysomelidae
Genus:	Plateumaris
Species:	P. rufa
Binomial name
Plateumaris rufa (Say, 1826)
Synonyms
Donacia rufa Say, 1826 Plateumaris chalcea (Lacordaire, 1845) Plateumaris sulcicollis (Lacordaire, 1845)

Plateumaris rufa is a species of aquatic leaf beetle in the family Chrysomelidae. It is found in the eastern United States and Canada, from West Virginia north to Quebec. It was first described in 1826 by Thomas Say based on a specimen found on the bank of the Schuylkill River in Pennsylvania. The species has variable coloration. Although it is typically metallic reddish copper, it is sometimes blue, green, or rarely purple. Its appendages are rufous (reddish brown).

References

1. "Plateumaris rufa Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
2. "Plateumaris rufa". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
3. ^ Askevold, Ingolf S. (1991). "Classification, Reconstructed Phylogeny, and Geographic History of the New World Members of Plateumaris Thomson, 1859 (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Donaciinae)". Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada. 123 (S157): 5–175. doi:10.4039/entm123157fv.
4. Say, Thomas (1826). "Descriptions of new species of coleopterous insects inhabiting the United States". Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 5 (2): 283–284.

External links

• Media related to Plateumaris rufa at Wikimedia Commons
• Neotype of Plateumaris rufa at the Museum of Comparative Zoology

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