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Genus Neohaemonia

Stylish aquatic leaf beetle - Neohaemonia Donaciinae, head & pronotum - Neohaemonia melsheimeri Diving Bug ? - Neohaemonia Leaf Beetle? - Neohaemonia nigricornis Aquatic Leaf Beetle - Neohaemonia Aquatic Leaf Beetle - Neohaemonia Donaciinae, Aquatic Leaf Beetle, dorsal - Neohaemonia Donaciinae, Aquatic Leaf Beetle, lateral - Neohaemonia
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Polyphaga
No Taxon (Series Cucujiformia)
Superfamily Chrysomeloidea (Longhorn and Leaf Beetles)
Family Chrysomelidae (Leaf Beetles)
Subfamily Donaciinae (Aquatic Leaf Beetles)
Genus Neohaemonia
Explanation of Names
Neohaemonia Székessy 1941
Numbers
4 spp. in our area, 5 total(1)
Identification
Key to species(2)
Range
nearctic genus; in our area, across so. Canada & n. US(1)
Habitat
both larvae and adults aquatic(1)
Food
Hosts: Potamogeton spp.(1)
Remarks
our only representative of the tribe Haemoniini Chen 1941 that includes one more genus in the Palaearctic
Works Cited
1.American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea
Arnett, R.H., Jr., M. C. Thomas, P. E. Skelley and J. H. Frank. (eds.). 2002. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.
2.The genus Neohaemonia Székessy in North America (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Donaciinae): systematics, reconstructed phylogeny..
Askevold, I. 1988. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 113:360-430.