CLASSIFICATION, RECONSTRUCTED PHYLOGENY, AND GEOGRAPHIC HISTORY OF THE NEW WORLD MEMBERS OFPLATEUMARISTHOMSON, 1859 (COLEOPTERA: CHRYSOMELIDAE: DONACIINAE)

North American members of the genus Plateumaris Thomson, 1859, are revised; 17 species are recognized and 23 taxonomic changes are made in their classification. Plateumaris balli and P . schaefferi are described as new species. Names elevated from subspecies to species rank are P . robusta (Schaeffer) and P . frosti (Schaeffer); P . aurifera (LeConte) is revalidated, removed from junior synonymy with P . wallisi (Schaeffer); Donacia idola Hatch...