Leptusa is a genus of rove beetles in the family Staphylinidae. There are at least 20 described species in Leptusa.[1][2][3]
| Leptusa | |
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| Leptusa carolinensis | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Family: | Staphylinidae |
| Subtribe: | Leptusina |
| Genus: | Leptusa Kraatz, 1856 |
Species
edit- Leptusa atrocephala Bernhauer, 1905
- Leptusa bakeri (Casey, 1911)
- Leptusa brevicollis Casey, 1893
- Leptusa californiana Pace, 1989
- Leptusa canonica Casey, 1906
- Leptusa carolinensis Pace, 1989
- Leptusa cribratula (Casey, 1906)
- Leptusa elegans Blatchley, 1910
- Leptusa frontalis (Casey, 1893)
- Leptusa gatineauensis Klimaszewski and Pelletier in Klimaszewski, Pelletier and Majka, 2004
- Leptusa gimmeli
- Leptusa gracilis (Sachse, 1852)
- Leptusa jucunda Klimaszewski and Majka in Klimaszewski, Pelletier and Majka, 2004
- Leptusa laticollis Notman, 1921
- Leptusa nanula (Casey, 1893)
- Leptusa obscura Blatchley, 1910
- Leptusa opaca Casey, 1893
- Leptusa pseudopaca Klimaszewski and Majka in Klimaszewski, Pelletier and Majka, 2004
- Leptusa pusio (Casey, 1906)
- Leptusa smetanaiella Pace, 1989
- Leptusa smokyiensis Pace, 1989
- Leptusa virginica (Casey, 1911)
References
edit- ^ "Leptusa Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 6 February 2018.
- ^ "Leptusa Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 6 February 2018.
- ^ "Leptusa Overview". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 6 February 2018.
Further reading
edit- Arnett, R.H. Jr.; M. C. Thomas; P. E. Skelley; J. H. Frank, eds. (21 June 2002). American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, Florida.
- 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.
- Brunke A, Marshall S (2011). "Contributions to the faunistics and bionomics of Staphylinidae (Coleoptera) in northeastern North America: discoveries made through study of the University of Guelph Insect Collection, Ontario, Canada". ZooKeys (75): 29–68. Bibcode:2011ZooK...75...29B. doi:10.3897/zookeys.75.767. PMC 3088045. PMID 21594139.
- Klimaszewski J, McLean J, Chandler D, Savard K, Li A (2009). "Survey of rove beetles (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) from Stanley Park, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, with new records and description of a new species. Part 2". ZooKeys (22): 19–33. Bibcode:2009ZooK...22...19M. doi:10.3897/zookeys.22.177.
- Klimaszewski J, McLean J, Li A, Savard K (2009). "Survey of rove beetles (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) from Stanley Park, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, with new records and description of a new species. Part 1". ZooKeys (22): 5–17. Bibcode:2009ZooK...22....5M. doi:10.3897/zookeys.22.86.
- Klimaszewski J, Webster R, Assing V, Savard K (2008). "Diglotta mersa (Haliday) and Halobrecta flavipes Thomson, two new species for the Canadian fauna (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae)" (PDF). ZooKeys (2): 175–188. Bibcode:2008ZooK....2..175K. doi:10.3897/zookeys.2.18.
- Klimaszewski J, Webster R, Savard K (2009). "First record of the genus Schistoglossa Kraatz from Canada with descriptions of seven new species (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae)". ZooKeys (22): 45–79. Bibcode:2009ZooK...22...45K. doi:10.3897/zookeys.22.153.
- Klimaszewski J, Webster R, Savard K (2009). "Review of the rove beetle species of the subtribe Gyrophaenina Kraatz (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) from New Brunswick, Canada: new species, provincial records and bionomic information". ZooKeys (22): 81–170. Bibcode:2009ZooK...22...81K. doi:10.3897/zookeys.22.219. S2CID 84369341.
- Majka C, Klimaszewski J (2010). "Contributions to the knowledge of the Aleocharinae (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) in the Maritime Provinces of Canada". ZooKeys (46): 15–39. Bibcode:2010ZooK...46...15M. doi:10.3897/zookeys.46.413.
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