Donacia texana is a species of aquatic leaf beetle in the family Chrysomelidae.[1][2] It is found across most of eastern North America, from Ontario south to Florida and Texas.[2][3][4][5]

Donacia texana
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Chrysomelidae
Genus: Donacia
Species:
D. texana
Binomial name
Donacia texana
Crotch, 1873

References

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  1. ^ "Donacia texana Species Information". BugGuide.net. Iowa State University. Retrieved 25 January 2018.
  2. ^ a b "Donacia texana Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 25 January 2018.
  3. ^ White, Richard E. (1968). A Review of the Genus Cryptocephalus in America North of Mexico. Smithsonian Institution Press.
  4. ^ "North American Cryptocephalus species (Chrysomelidae, Cryptocephalinae)". Texas Entomology. Mike Quinn. Retrieved 25 January 2018.
  5. ^ Riley, Edward G., Shawn M. Clark, and Terry N. Seeno (2003). "Catalog of the leaf beetles of America north of Mexico (Coleoptera: Megalopodidae, Orsodacnidae and Chrysomelidae, excluding Bruchinae)". Coleopterists Society Special Publication no. 1, 290.

Further reading

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  • NCBI Taxonomy Browser, Donacia texana
  • Arnett, R. H. Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). (21 June 2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, Florida ISBN 978-0-8493-0954-0.
  • Arnett, Ross H. (2000). American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico. CRC Press.
  • Richard E. White. (1983). Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. Houghton Mifflin Company.