Leptusa

Leptusa is a genus of rove beetles in the family Staphylinidae. There are at least 20 described species in Leptusa.[1][2][3]

Leptusa
Leptusa carolinensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Staphylinidae
Subtribe: Leptusina
Genus: Leptusa
Kraatz, 1856

Species
  • 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
  1. "Leptusa Genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 6 February 2018.
  2. "Leptusa Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 6 February 2018.
  3. "Leptusa Overview". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 6 February 2018.

Further reading
  • 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. doi:10.3897/zookeys.75.767. 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. 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. 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)". ZooKeys (2): 175–188. 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. 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. doi:10.3897/zookeys.22.219.
  • Majka C, Klimaszewski J (2010). "Contributions to the knowledge of the Aleocharinae (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) in the Maritime Provinces of Canada". ZooKeys (46): 15–39. doi:10.3897/zookeys.46.413.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.