Genus of beetles
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
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" (PDF) . 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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