Leptusa

Genus of beetles

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

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

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. 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)". 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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Taxon identifiers
Leptusa
  • Wikidata: Q11983768
  • Wikispecies: Leptusa
  • AFD: Leptusa
  • BioLib: 6931
  • BOLD: 167753
  • BugGuide: 474035
  • CoL: 8VRSG
  • EoL: 11088
  • Fauna Europaea: 265671
  • Fauna Europaea (new): 9d904ab4-bba2-4b33-b97f-653c0a68815f
  • GBIF: 1041579
  • iNaturalist: 177518
  • IRMNG: 1410050
  • ITIS: 724521
  • NBN: NHMSYS0001718812
  • NCBI: 347372
  • NZOR: 455c82d4-117e-4f12-bc23-c0d053ff9cae
  • Open Tree of Life: 289248
  • Paleobiology Database: 348467
  • WoRMS: 990135


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