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Family	Chrysomelidae
Sub Family	Donaciinae
Description	reed beetles; a sub-family of the Chrysomelidae
Background to Family	More than 20 species of attractive, metallic beetles that are restricted to freshwater or brackish habitats. Larvae feed on the rhizomes of aquatic and semi-aquatic plants. Adults are generally recorded from a broader range of aquatic hosts than the larvae, where they feed on foliage and pollen.

No. taxa in DBIF	_
No. interactions	_
% interactions with British data	_
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% taxa with British data	_
Notes	Old data currently unassessed by a specialist for changes in nomenclature, errors in original sources, or for misspellings. New material added from Cox, 2007 (Atlas of the seed and leaf beetles of Britain and Ireland. Pisces Publications, UK).; ;
Notes on Sources	Please see sources at the family level; Please see sources at the family level; Please see sources at the family level
Most recent source	2007

Below is a list of all sources for this family / sub-family contained within DBIF. Click on source name for a list of all records for this source.


Source	Collins (1911)
Source	Cox, M.L. (1976) The taxonomy and biology of the British Chrysomelidae 2 141-375:261
Source	Mohr, K.H., in eds. Freude, H., Harde, K.W. & Lohse, G.A. (1966) Die kafer Mitteleuropas. 88. Familie: Chrysomelidae 9 95-299:104
Source	Lays (2003
Source	Cox, M.L. (1976) The taxonomy and biology of the British Chrysomelidae 2 141-375:262
Source	Mohr, K.H., in eds. Freude, H., Harde, K.W. & Lohse, G.A. (1966) Die kafer Mitteleuropas. 88. Familie: Chrysomelidae 9 95-299:109
Source	Mohr, K.H., in eds. Freude, H., Harde, K.W. & Lohse, G.A. (1966) Die kafer Mitteleuropas. 88. Familie: Chrysomelidae 9 95-299:102
Source	Walsh, G.B. & Dibb, J.R.(1954) Amat. Ent. 11 83-98:89
Source	Walsh, G.B. & Dibb, J.R.(1954) Amat. Ent. 11 83-98:91
Source	Cox, M.L. (2007)
Source	Lays (2003)
Source	Cox, M.L. (1976) The taxonomy and biology of the British Chrysomelidae 2 141-375:263
Source	Mohr, K.H., in eds. Freude, H., Harde, K.W. & Lohse, G.A. (1966) Die kafer Mitteleuropas. 88. Familie: Chrysomelidae 9 95-299:101
Source	Lays (1997)
Source	Walsh, G.B. & Dibb, J.R.(1954) Amat. Ent. 11 83-98:94
Source	Owen (1996)
Source	Allen, A.A. (1984) Comments on 1954 edition of Coleopterist's Handbook :3
Source	Lays (2002)
Source	Allen, A.A. (1984) Comments on 1954 edition of Coleopterist's Handbook :4
Source	Walsh, G.B. & Dibb, J.R.(1954) Amat. Ent. 11 83-98:85
Source	Mohr, K.H., in eds. Freude, H., Harde, K.W. & Lohse, G.A. (1966) Die kafer Mitteleuropas. 88. Familie: Chrysomelidae 9 95-299:107
Source	Boving (1910)
Source	Lays (1997, 2003)
Source	Otto, C.(1985) Aquatic Insects 7:1 19-28:19
Source	Mohr, K.H., in eds. Freude, H., Harde, K.W. & Lohse, G.A. (1966) Die kafer Mitteleuropas. 88. Familie: Chrysomelidae 9 95-299:105
Source	Parry, J.A(1979) Entomologist's Rec. J. Var. 91 323-326:324
Source	Allen, A.A. (1984) Comments on 1954 edition of Coleopterist's Handbook :7
Source	Mohr, K.H., in eds. Freude, H., Harde, K.W. & Lohse, G.A. (1966) Die kafer Mitteleuropas. 88. Familie: Chrysomelidae 9 95-299:106
Source	Allen, A.A. (1984) Comments on 1954 edition of Coleopterist's Handbook :1
Source	Parry, J.A(1979) Entomologist's Rec. J. Var. 91 323-326:325
Source	Walsh, G.B. & Dibb, J.R.(1954) Amat. Ent. 11 83-98:98
Source	Stainforth (1944)
Source	Mohr, K.H., in eds. Freude, H., Harde, K.W. & Lohse, G.A. (1966) Die kafer Mitteleuropas. 88. Familie: Chrysomelidae 9 95-299:103
Source	Mohr, K.H., in eds. Freude, H., Harde, K.W. & Lohse, G.A. (1966) Die kafer Mitteleuropas. 88. Familie: Chrysomelidae 9 95-299:108
Source	Walsh, G.B. & Dibb, J.R.(1954) Amat. Ent. 11 83-98:96

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