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Sparganium (bur-reeds)

Subtaxa

Rank	Taxon
Species	Sparganium angustifolium Michaux (Floating Bur-reed)		1
Species	Sparganium emersum Rehmann (Unbranched Bur-reed)		2
Species	Sparganium erectum L. (Branched Bur-reed)	2	24
Species	Sparganium natans L. (Least Bur-reed)		1

Suggested Literature

Identification Works

Sparganium may also be covered by literature listed under:

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Associated with Sparganium:

		is foodplant of adult	Plateumaris affinis - a leaf beetle (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)		Cox, M.L., 2007
		may have adult	Plateumaris sericea - a leaf beetle (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)		Cox, M.L., 2007
	leaf (live)	live leaf is mined by larva	Nymphula stagnata - Beautiful China Mark (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae)		Robbins, R., 1990 [a long, usually fairly narrow corridor, above or alongside the midrib, sometimes running below water level when it feeds in the halm or excises a case and feeds externally.]
	leaf (live)	live leaf is mined by larva	Orthotelia sparganella - a small ermine moth (Lepidoptera: Glyphipterigidae)		Robbins, R., 1990
	leaf (live, underwater)	live, underwater leaf is grazed by mobile cased larva	Nymphula stagnata - Beautiful China Mark (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae)		Robbins, R., 1990
	leaf (surface)	leaf (surface) is grazed by adult	Donacia simplex - a leaf beetle (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)		Cox, M.L., 2007
	leaf	leaf is grazed by adult	Donacia vulgaris - a leaf beetle (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)		Cox, M.L., 2007 Bullock, J.A., 1992
	leaf	leaf may have adult	Donacia versicolorea - a leaf beetle (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)		Cox, M.L., 2007
	stem?	stem? is foodplant of larva	Thryogenes scirrhosus - a weevil (Coleoptera: Erirhinidae)		Morris, M.G., 2002

Sparganium may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

References